Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people; Thou hast kept me to be the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

New American Standard Bible

You have also delivered me from the contentions of my people;
You have kept me as head of the nations;
A people whom I have not known serve me.

King James Version

Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.

Holman Bible

You have freed me from the feuds among my people;
You have appointed me the head of nations;
a people I had not known serve me.

International Standard Version

You delivered me from civil war among my own people. You preserved me as head of the nations. People whom I had never known served me!

A Conservative Version

Thou have also delivered me from the strivings of my people. Thou have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Amplified


“You also have rescued me from strife with my [own] people;
You have kept me as the head of the nations.
People whom I have not known served me.

Bible in Basic English

You have made me free from the fightings of my people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.

Darby Translation

And thou hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, Thou hast kept me to be head of the nations: A people I knew not doth serve me:

Julia Smith Translation

And thou wilt save me from the strifes of my people, Thou wilt watch me for the head of nations: The people I have not known shall serve me.

King James 2000

You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people, you have kept me to be head of the nations: a people whom I knew not shall serve me.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You delivered me from the strife of my people; you preserved me as the head of the nations. A people I had not known served me.

Modern King James verseion

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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And thou deliveredst me from the dissension of my people, and keepest me to be a head over nations, for the people which I knew not became my servants.

NET Bible

You rescue me from a hostile army; you preserve me as a leader of nations; people over whom I had no authority are now my subjects.

New Heart English Bible

You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.

The Emphasized Bible

Thus didst thou rescue me from the contentions of my people, didst keep me to be the head of nations: - a people whom I had not known, served me;

Webster

Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.

World English Bible

You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.

Youngs Literal Translation

And -- Thou dost deliver me From the strivings of my people, Thou placest me for a head of nations; A people I have not known do serve me.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּלט 
Palat 
Usage: 26

me from the strivings
רב ריב 
Riyb 
Usage: 60

of my people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

thou hast kept
שׁמר 
Shamar 
Usage: 468

me to be head
ראשׁ 
Ro'sh 
Usage: 598

of the heathen
גּי גּוי 
Gowy 
Usage: 558

a people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

not shall serve
עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

References

Context Readings

The Victory Song Of David

43 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. 44 Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people; Thou hast kept me to be the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me. 45 The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me: As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me.


Cross References

2 Samuel 8:1-14

And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.

Isaiah 55:5

Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not; and a nation that knew not thee shall run unto thee, because of Jehovah thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.

2 Samuel 3:1

Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: and David waxed stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

Deuteronomy 28:13

And Jehovah will make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if thou shalt hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them ,

2 Samuel 19:9

And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land from Absalom.

2 Samuel 19:14

And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent unto the king,'saying , Return thou, and all thy servants.

2 Samuel 5:1

Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

2 Samuel 18:6-8

So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.

2 Samuel 20:1-2

And there happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

2 Samuel 20:22

Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. And he blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

Psalm 2:1-6

Why do the nations rage, And the peoples meditate a vain thing?

Psalm 2:8

Ask of me, and I will give thee the nations for thine inheritance, And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.

Psalm 18:43

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; Thou hast made me the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Psalm 60:8-9

Moab is my washpot; Upon Edom will I cast my shoe: Philistia, shout thou because of me.

Psalm 72:8-9

He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, And from the River unto the ends of the earth.

Psalm 110:6

He will judge among the nations, He will fill the places with dead bodies; He will strike through the head in many countries.

Isaiah 60:12

For that nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

Isaiah 65:1

I am inquired of by them that asked not for me ; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

Daniel 7:14

And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

Hosea 2:23

And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them that were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.

Acts 4:25-28

who by the Holy Spirit, by the mouth of our father David thy servant, didst say, Why did the Gentiles rage, And the peoples imagine vain things?

Acts 5:30-31

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, hanging him on a tree.

Romans 9:25

As he saith also in Hosea, I will call that my people, which was not my people; And her beloved, that was not beloved.

Romans 15:12

And again, Isaiah saith, There shall be the root of Jesse, And he that ariseth to rule over the Gentiles; On him shall the Gentiles hope.

Revelation 11:15

And the seventh angel sounded; and there followed great voices in heaven, and they said, The kingdom of the world is become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ: and he shall reign for ever and ever.

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