Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
Holman Bible
I crush them and trample them like mud in the streets.
International Standard Version
I pulverized them to powder, like the dust of the earth; I crushed them, stomping on them like mud on a street.
A Conservative Version
Then I beat them small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.
American Standard Version
Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth, I did crush them as the mire of the streets, and did spread them abroad.
Amplified
“Then I beat them as [small as] the dust of the earth;
I crushed and stamped them as the mire (dirt, mud) of the streets.
Bible in Basic English
Then they were crushed as small as the dust of the earth, stamped down under my feet like the waste of the streets.
Darby Translation
And I did beat them small as the dust of the earth, I trod them as the mire of the streets; I stamped upon them.
Julia Smith Translation
And I will rub them as the dust of the earth: As the mire of the streets I will stamp them, I will beat them:
King James 2000
Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I beat them fine, like the dust of the earth; like the mire of the streets, I crushed them, I stamped them down.
Modern King James verseion
Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I stamped them like the mire of the streets and spread them out.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And I will beat them as small as the dust of the earth, and will stamp them as the dirt of the street, and will spread them abroad.
NET Bible
I grind them as fine as the dust of the ground; I crush them and stomp on them like clay in the streets.
New Heart English Bible
Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.
The Emphasized Bible
Then did I beat them in pieces, like the dust of the earth, - like the clay of the lanes, did I crush them, stamp them down.
Webster
Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I stamped them as the mire of the street, and spread them abroad.
World English Bible
Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.
Youngs Literal Translation
And I beat them as dust of the earth, As mire of the streets I beat them small -- I spread them out!
Interlinear
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Samuel 22:43
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Victory Song Of David
42
They looked, but there was no one to save them; even unto the LORD, but he did not answer them.
43
Cross References
Micah 7:10
Then she that is my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her who said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? my eyes shall behold her: now she shall be trodden down as the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and upon the people of my wrath will I send him to take spoil and to take prey and to ready them that they might be tread down like the mire of the streets.
2 Kings 13:7
Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen, for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like dust to be tread upon.
Zechariah 10:5
And they shall be as mighty men, who tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle; and they shall fight because the LORD shall be with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
Deuteronomy 32:26
I said I would shatter them in pieces: I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,
Psalm 18:42
Then I beat them as small as the dust before the wind: I scattered them as the dirt in the streets.
Psalm 35:5
Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
Isaiah 26:15
Thou hast added the Gentiles, O LORD, thou hast added the Gentiles: thou hast made thyself glorious: thou hast extended thyself unto all the ends of the earth.
Daniel 2:35
Then was the iron, the baked clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to pieces together and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away that no place was found for them again; and the stone that smote the image was made into a great mountain that filled the whole earth.
Zechariah 2:6
Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD, for I have spread you abroad by the four winds of the heavens, saith the LORD.
Malachi 4:1
For, behold, the day comes that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, said the LORD of the hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Luke 21:24
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captive into all nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.