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43 I pulverized them to powder,
    like the dust of the earth;
I crushed them,
    stomping on them like mud on a street.

44 You delivered me from civil war among my own people.
    You preserved me as head of the nations.
        People whom I had never known served me!
45 Foreigners[a] came cringing to me;
    they obeyed as soon as they heard[b] me.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 22:45 Lit. Children of foreigners
  2. 2 Samuel 22:45 MT verbs obeyed and heard are identical in spelling