Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 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 to Jehovah, but He did not answer them. 42 Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I cast them out like the dirt in the streets. 43 You have delivered Me from the strivings of the people; You have 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 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.
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.
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.
Psalm 50:22
Now think of this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Isaiah 25:10
For the hand of Jehovah shall rest in this mountain, and Moab shall be trampled under Him, even as straw is trampled in the water of a dung pit.
Isaiah 41:2
Who raised up the righteous one from the east, called him to His foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings? He gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his bow.
Isaiah 41:15-16
Behold, I make you a new sharp threshing instrument, a master of teeth; you shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills like chaff.
Malachi 4:3
And you shall trample the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day which I am preparing, says Jehovah of Hosts.