Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.
New American Standard Bible
They fell
King James Version
I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
Holman Bible
they fall beneath my feet.
International Standard Version
I struck them down, so they are not able to rise up; they fell under my feet.
American Standard Version
I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise: They shall fall under my feet.
Amplified
I shattered them so that they were not able to rise;
They fell [wounded] under my feet.
Bible in Basic English
I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.
Darby Translation
I crushed them, and they were not able to rise: they fell under my feet.
Julia Smith Translation
I will smite them through and through, and they shall not be able to rise: they shall fall under my feet.
King James 2000
I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I struck them and they were not able to stand up; they fell under my feet.
Modern King James verseion
I have shattered them, and they cannot rise again; they have fallen under my feet.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I will smite them, that they shall not be able to stand, but fall under my feet. {TYNDALE: I wasted them and so clouted them, that they could not arise: but fell under my feet.}
NET Bible
I beat them to death; they fall at my feet.
New Heart English Bible
I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.
The Emphasized Bible
I crushed them, and they were unable to rise, They fell under my feet.
Webster
I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they have fallen under my feet.
World English Bible
I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.
Youngs Literal Translation
I smite them, and they are not able to rise, They fall under my feet,
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 18:38
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise For Deliverance
37 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them. Neither will I turn again till they are consumed. 38 I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet. 39 For thou have girded me with strength to the battle. Thou have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:49-51
And David put his hand in his bag, and took from there a stone, and slung it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead. And the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell upon his face to the earth.
1 Samuel 23:5
And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
1 Samuel 30:17
And David smote them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. And there escaped not a man of them, except four hundred young men who rode upon camels and fled.
2 Samuel 5:1-25
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David to Hebron, and spoke, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
2 Samuel 8:1-18
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.
2 Samuel 10:1-19
And it came to pass after this, that the king of the sons of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.
2 Samuel 18:7-8
And the people of Israel were smitten there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
2 Samuel 21:15-22
And the Philistines had war again with Israel. And David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. And David grew faint,
2 Samuel 22:39
And I have consumed them, and smitten them through, so that they cannot arise. Yea, they are fallen under my feet.
Psalm 36:12
There are the workers of iniquity fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.
Psalm 47:3
He subdues peoples under us, and nations under our feet.