Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.
New American Standard Bible
I emptied them out as the mire of the streets.
King James Version
Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
Holman Bible
I trample them
International Standard Version
I ground them like wind-swept dust; I emptied them out like dirt in the street.
A Conservative Version
Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
Amplified
Then I beat them fine as the dust before the wind;
I emptied them out as the dirt of the streets.
Bible in Basic English
Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.
Darby Translation
And I did beat them small as dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.
Julia Smith Translation
And I will beat them in pieces as dust upon the face of the wind: I will pour them out as the mire of the streets.
King James 2000
Then did I beat them as fine as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And I ground them like dust {in the wind}, I emptied them out like mud of [the] streets.
Modern King James verseion
Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I cast them out like the dirt in the streets.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
I will beat them as small as the dust before the wind; I will cast them out as the clay in the streets. {TYNDALE: 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 windblown dust; I beat them underfoot like clay in the streets.
New Heart English Bible
Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
The Emphasized Bible
Then did I beat them in pieces, like dust on the face of the wind. Like the mire in the lanes, did I scatter them.
Webster
Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
World English Bible
Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.
Youngs Literal Translation
And I beat them as dust before wind, As mire of the streets I empty them out.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 18:42
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise For Deliverance
41 They cried, but there was none to save; Even unto Jehovah, but he answered them not. 42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets. 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.
Cross References
2 Kings 13:7
For he left not to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Zechariah 10:5
And they shall be as mighty men, treading down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Jehovah is with them; and the riders on horses shall be confounded.
Psalm 50:22
Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:
Isaiah 25:10
For in this mountain will the hand of Jehovah rest; and Moab shall be trodden down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dung-hill.
Isaiah 41:2
Who hath raised up one from the east, whom he calleth in righteousness to his foot? he giveth nations before him, and maketh him rule over kings; he giveth them as the dust to his sword, as the driven stubble to his bow.
Isaiah 41:15-16
Behold, I have made thee to be a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
Malachi 4:3
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make, saith Jehovah of hosts.