Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.

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:

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 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: 44 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. 45 The sons of the stranger will lie to me: For the hearing of the ear they will hear to me.


Cross References

2 Samuel 8:1-14

And it will be after this, and David will strike the rovers and subdue them: and David will take the bridle of the metropolis out of the hand of the rovers.

Isaiah 55:5

Behold, nations thou shalt not know; thou shalt call, and nations that knew thee not shall run to thee, for sake of Jehovah thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he honored thee.

2 Samuel 3:1

And long war will be between the house of Saul and between the house of David: and David went and was strengthened, and the house of Saul went and was weakened.

Deuteronomy 28:13

And Jehovah gave thee for head, and not for tail: and thou wert only for ascending, and thou shalt not be for beneath; when thou shalt hear to the commands of Jehovah thy God that I command thee this day, to watch and to do.

2 Samuel 19:9

And all the people will be judging in all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us from the hand of the rovers and now he fled from the land from Absalom.

2 Samuel 19:14

And he will incline the heart of all the men of Judah as one man; and they will send to the king, Turn back thou, and all thy servants.

2 Samuel 5:1

And all the tribes of Israel will come to David to Hebron, and they will say, saying, Behold us thy bone and thy flesh.

2 Samuel 18:6-8

And the people will go forth to the field to the meeting of Israel: and the war will be in the forest of Ephraim;

2 Samuel 20:1-2

And a man of Belial was met with there, and his name Sheba, son of Bichri, a man, a Jaminite: and he will strike upon the trumpet and say, No portion to us in David, and no inheritance to us in the son of Jesse: a man to his tent to Israel.

2 Samuel 20:22

And the woman will go to all the people in her wisdom: and they will cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and cast to Joab. And he will strike upon the trumpet, and they will disperse from the city, a man to his tent. And Joab turned back to Jerusalem to the king.

Psalm 2:1-6

Wherefore did the nations rage, and the peoples will meditate emptiness?

Psalm 2:8

Ask of me and I will give the nations thine inheritance, and thy possession the extremities of the earth.

Psalm 18:43

Thou wilt deliver me from the contentions of the people; thou wilt set me for head of the nations: a people I knew not shall serve me.

Psalm 60:8-9

Moab the pot of my washing; over Edom I will cast out my shoe: for me, Philistia shouted for joy.

Psalm 72:8-9

And he shall rule from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the. ends of the earth.

Psalm 110:6

He shall judge in the nations; he filled with dead bodies: he crushed the head over much land.

Isaiah 60:12

For the nation and the kingdom which will not serve thee shall perish; and the nations shall be laid waste with the sword.

Isaiah 65:1

was sought by them they asked not; I was found by them not seeking me: I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation not calling upon my name.

Daniel 7:14

And to him was given dominion, power and honor, and a kingdom; and all peoples and nations and tongues shall serve to him: his power an eternal power that shall not pass away, and his kingdom which shall not be destroyed.

Hosea 2:23

And I sowed her to me in the earth; and I compassionated her Not being compassionated; and I said to Not my people, Thou my people; and they will say, My God.

Acts 4:25-28

Having said by the mouth of David thy servant, That why were the nations insolent, and did the people practise vain things

Acts 5:30-31

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew with your own hands, having hung him upon a tree.

Romans 9:25

As also he says in Hosea, I will call not my people my people; and the not loved, loved.

Romans 15:12

And again Esaias says, The root shall be of Jesse, and he having risen to rule over the nations; upon him shall the nations hope.

Revelation 11:15

And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet; and great voices were in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of the world were our Lord's, and his Christ's; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

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