Parallel Verses
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.
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 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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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 none to save; to Jehovah, but He did not answer them. 43 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. 44 You have also delivered me from the strivings of my people, You have kept me the head of the nations. A people I knew not shall serve me.
Cross References
Micah 7:10
Then my enemy shall see it; and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is Jehovah your God? My eyes shall behold her; now she shall be trampled like the mud of the streets.
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My wrath. I will command him to take the plunder, and to strip off the spoil, and to trample them like the mud of the streets.
2 Kings 13:7
For He had not left a people remaining to Jehoahaz, but only fifty horsemen and ten chariots and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them and had made them like the dust at threshing-time.
Zechariah 10:5
And they shall be like mighty ones who trample the mud of the streets in the battle. And they shall fight because Jehovah is with them, and they shall make the riders on horses ashamed.
Deuteronomy 32:26
I said I would dash them to pieces; I would make the memory of them to cease from among men,
Psalm 18:42
Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I cast them out like the dirt in the streets.
Psalm 35:5
Let them be as chaff before the wind; and let the Angel of Jehovah drive them away.
Isaiah 26:15
You have increased the nation, O Jehovah, You have increased the nation; You are glorified; You have extended all the ends of the land.
Daniel 2:35
Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken to pieces together. And they became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. And the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
Zechariah 2:6
Ho! Ho! Flee then from the land of the north, says Jehovah. For I have scattered you as the four winds of the heavens, says Jehovah.
Malachi 4:1
For behold, the day is coming, burning like a fire pot; and all the proud, and every doer of wickedness, shall be chaff. And the coming day will set them ablaze, says Jehovah of Hosts, which will not leave root or branches to them.
Luke 21:24
And they shall fall by the sword's edge. And shall be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the nations until the times of the nations is fulfilled.