Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
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.
New American Standard Bible
You have placed me as
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King James Version
Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
Holman Bible
You have appointed me the head of nations;
a people I had not known serve me.
International Standard Version
You rescued me from conflict with the people; you made me head of the nations. People who did not know me will serve me.
A Conservative Version
Thou have delivered me from the strivings of the people. Thou have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
You have rescued me from the contentions of the people;
You have placed me as the head of the nations;
A people whom I have not known serve me.
Bible in Basic English
You have made me free from the fightings of the people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.
Darby Translation
Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; thou hast made me the head of the nations: a people I knew not doth serve me.
Julia Smith Translation
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.
King James 2000
You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; and you have made me the head of the nations: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You rescued me from strife with people; you set me as head (over) nations. People I did not know served me;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou shalt deliver me from the strivings of the people, and thou shalt make me the head of the Heathen. A people whom I have not known shall serve me. {TYNDALE: 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 make me a leader of nations; people over whom I had no authority are now my subjects.
New Heart English Bible
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.
The Emphasized Bible
Thus didst thou rescue me from the contentions of a people, - didst appoint me to be the head of nations, A people I had not known, served me:
Webster
Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou dost deliver me From the strivings of the people, Thou placest me for a head of nations, A people I have not known do serve me.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 18:43
Prayers for Psalm 18:43
Verse Info
Context Readings
Praise For Deliverance
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. 44 As soon as they hear of Me, they shall obey Me; the sons of strangers shall bow down to Me.
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 52:15
so He sprinkles from many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at Him; for they will see that which was not told to them; yea, what they had not heard, nor understood.
Isaiah 55:5
Behold, You shall call a nation that You do not know; a nation that did not know You shall run to You because of Jehovah Your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for He has glorified You.
2 Samuel 3:1
And there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. But David became stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul became weaker and weaker.
2 Samuel 8:1-18
And it happened afterward, David struck the Philistines and humbled them. And David took The Bridle of the Metropolis out of the hand of the Philistines.
2 Samuel 2:9-10
And he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
2 Samuel 5:1-25
And all the tribes of Israel came to David, to Hebron, and spoke, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.
2 Samuel 10:1-19
And it happened after this, the king of the sons of Ammon died, and his son Hanun reigned in his stead.
2 Samuel 19:9
And it happened, all the people quarreled throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines. And now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.
2 Samuel 22:44-46
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.
Psalm 22:27-28
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to Jehovah; and all the families of the nations shall worship before You.
Psalm 108:9
Moab is My washpot; I will cast out My shoe over Edom; I will triumph over Philistia.
Isaiah 49:6
And He said, It is but a little thing that You should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to bring back the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You for a light to the nations, to be My salvation to the end of the earth.
Isaiah 49:22-23
So says the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations, and have set up My banner to the people; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
Hosea 1:10
Yet the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered. And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, there it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living God.
Acts 5:31
This One God has exalted to be a Ruler and Savior to His right hand in order to give repentance and remission of sins to Israel.
Romans 15:12
And again Isaiah says, "There shall be a root of Jesse, and He who shall rise to reign over the nations, in Him shall the nations trust."
Romans 15:18
For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ did not work out by me for the obedience of the nations in word and deed,
Romans 16:26
but now has been made plain, and by the prophetic Scriptures, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith;
Ephesians 1:22
And He has put all things under His feet and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church,
1 Peter 2:10
you who then were not a people, but now the people of God, those not pitied then, but now pitied.
Revelation 11:15
And the seventh angel sounded. And there were great voices in Heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ. And He will reign forever and ever.