Parallel Verses
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 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 out for help, but there was no one to save them. They cried out to Jehovah, but he did not answer them.
42
I emptied them out as the mire of the streets.
Cross References
2 Kings 13:7
Out of all his army, Jehoahaz had only fifty horsemen and ten carriages and ten thousand footmen. The king of Aram had given them up to destruction, crushing them like dust.
Isaiah 10:6
I send him against a godless nation. I commission him against the people of my fury to capture booty and to seize plunder, and to trample them down like mud (clay) in the streets.
Zechariah 10:5
They will be as mighty men treading down their enemies in the mire of the streets. They will fight in the battle! Because Jehovah is with them! The riders on horses will be confounded (confused) (bewildered).
Psalm 50:22
Consider this, you who do not remember God. Otherwise, I will tear you to pieces, and there will be no one to deliver.
Isaiah 25:10
Jehovah's power will be on this mountain. Moab will be trampled beneath him like straw that is trampled in a pile of manure.
Isaiah 41:2
Who has stirred up one from the east, calling him in righteousness to his service? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.
Isaiah 41:15-16
See I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them. You will reduce the hills to chaff.
Malachi 4:3
When I act you will tread down the wicked. They will be like dust under your feet, Jehovah of Hosts said.