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Psalms 18:43
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You gave me victory over my accusers. You appointed me ruler over nations; people I don't even know now serve me.
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.
You have delivered me from the strivings of a people; You have made me the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
You saved me when the people attacked me. You made me the leader of nations. People I never knew serve me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You delivered me from strife with the people; you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
And Y schal al to-breke hem, as dust bifor the face of wynd; Y schal do hem awei, as the cley of stretis.
You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
You rescued me from stubborn people, and you made me the leader of foreign nations, who are now my slaves.
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.
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.
I pulverized them like dust in the wind, threw them out like mud in the streets.
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.
You saved me from those who fought against me. You made me the ruler over nations. People I never knew now serve me.
Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.
Thou hast deliuered me from the striuings of the people, and thou hast made mee the head of the heathen: a people whom I haue not knowen, shall serue me.
You have taken me away from the fighting of the people. You have made me the leader of nations. People whom I have not known will serve me.
You delivered me from strife with the peoples; you made me head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
Thou hast deliuered me from the contentions of the people: thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people, whom I haue not knowen, shal serue me.
Thou wilt deliver me from the judgments of the people; and thou wilt make me the leader of the Gentiles; a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
You saved me from a rebellious people and made me ruler over the nations; people I did not know have now become my subjects.
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:
(17-44) Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people; thou wilt make me head of the Gentiles.
Thou didst deliver me from strife with the peoples; thou didst make me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
Thou hast deliuered me from sedition of the people, and thou hast made me head of the heathen: a people whom I haue not knowen serueth me,
Deliver me from the gain sayings of the people: thou shalt make me head of the Gentiles: a people whom I knew not served me,
You have freed me from the feuds among the people;you have appointed me the head of nations;a people I had not known serve me.
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.
You rescued me from strife with people; you set me as head (over) nations. People I did not know served me;
You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; You have made me head of the nations; a people I have not known shall serve me.
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.
Thou shalt delyuer me from the stryuinges of the people, thou shalt make me the heade of the Heithe.
You rescued me from a squabbling people; you made me a leader of nations. People I'd never heard of served me; the moment they got wind of me they listened. The foreign devils gave up; they came on their bellies, crawling from their hideouts.
You have rescued me from the contentions of the people; You have placed me as head of the nations; A people whom I have not known serve me.
You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; You have made me the head of the nations; A people I have not known shall serve me.
You have delivered me from the contentions of the people; You have placed me as head of the nations; A people whom I have not known serve me.
You have delivered me from the contentions of the people;You have placed me as head of the nations;A people whom I have not known serve me.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
from: 2 Samuel 2:9, 2 Samuel 2:10, 2 Samuel 3:1, 2 Samuel 5:1-7, Acts 5:31
made: Psalms 22:27, Psalms 22:28, Psalms 108:9, 2 Samuel 5:1-25, 2 Samuel 8:1-18, 2 Samuel 10:1-19, 2 Samuel 22:44-46, Isaiah 49:6, Isaiah 49:22, Isaiah 49:23, Isaiah 52:15, Romans 15:12, Romans 15:18, Ephesians 1:22
a people: Isaiah 52:15, Isaiah 55:5, Hosea 1:10, Romans 16:26, 1 Peter 2:10, Revelation 11:15
Reciprocal: Numbers 24:7 - his king 1 Chronicles 18:6 - became David's Esther 8:17 - many of the people Esther 9:4 - was great Psalms 10:16 - heathen Psalms 18:16 - drew
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people,.... In 2 Samuel 22:44, it is read "my people", meaning the people of Israel; either Saul and his men, who contended with David, and sought his life; or rather the tribes of Israel, who, after Saul's death, refused to acknowledge David as their king, but afterwards came and anointed him in Hebron. The words may very well be interpreted of the contentions of the Scribes and Pharisees with Christ, and of the opposition from sinners, which he for a while endured, but is now delivered from them all;
[and] thou hast made me the head of the Heathen; which, if understood of David, refers to the Philistines, Syrians, Moabites, and Edomites, being subdued by him, and becoming tributaries to him, 2 Samuel 8:1. But it best agrees with Christ, who is the head of his chosen ones among the Gentiles; the political head, King, and Governor of them, the Heathen being given him for his inheritance and possession; and which appeared in the first ages of Christianity, when the Gospel was first preached to the Gentiles by the apostles; and still continues, and will be more clearly seen in the latter day, when the Lord shall be King over all the earth. Christ was made the head of the Heathen, by the appointment and designation of his Father; and, in fact, was so when multitudes from among the Gentiles were converted and brought to the obedience of him. In 2 Samuel 22:44 it is, "thou hast kept me [to be] head of the Heathen"; which does not seem so much to intend the designation and constitution of him as such, but the continuation of him; and denotes the stability of his government in the Gentile world, of which there will be no end;
a people [whom] I have not known shall serve me; by whom are meant the Gentiles, who were not the people of God, were without Christ and without God, and without hope in the world: not that there are any people that can be unknown to Christ, as he is the omniscient God; nor were these unknown to him, in such sense as reprobates, nominal professors, and foolish virgins, are said not to be known by him, Matthew 7:23. For these people among the Heathen, who are or shall be brought to serve the Lord, are such who were the objects of his love and delight from everlasting; were in his Father's choice and in his own, and in the gift of his Father to him, and in the covenant of his grace; and therefore must be known by him; moreover, they are the purchase of his blood; and the sheep he knows, for whom he has laid down his life, and of whom he has such an exact and particular knowledge, that he can and does call them by name. But the sense is, these seemed not to be taken notice of and cared for by Christ; they were not owned and acknowledged by him as his people; the Jews were distinguished from all others; they only had the law, the word of God, and his ordinances; the Gentiles were suffered to walk in their own ways; they were neglected, and the times of their ignorance were overlooked and disregarded; so that they were treated as a people that were not known for many hundreds of years: but here it is predicted, that when the Gospel should come among them, and they be called by it, they should "serve" the Lord in righteousness and true holiness, with reverence and godly fear, from a principle of love, in his name and strength, and to his glory; see Isaiah 55:4.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people - From the contentions of the people; or, from the efforts which they have made to overcome and subdue me. The allusion is to the efforts made by the people, under the guidance of their leaders. It is not “strivings” among his own followers, but the efforts, the strivings, the contentions of his enemies, who endeavored to obtain the mastery over him, and to subdue him.
Thou hast made me the head of the heathen - The head of the nations; that is, the nations round about. In other words, he had, by the divine aid, brought them into subjection to him, or so subdued them that they became tributary to him. The word “heathen” with us expresses an idea which is not necessarily connected with the original word. That word is simply nations - גוים gôyim. It is true that those nations were pagans in the present sense of the term, but that idea is not necessarily connected with the word. The meaning is, that surrounding nations had been made subject to him; or that he had been made to rule over them. David, in fact, thus brought the surrounding people under subjection to him, and made them tributary. In 2 Samuel 8:0 he is said to have subdued Philistia, and Moab, and Syria, and Edom, in all of which countries he put “garrisons,” and all of which he made tributary to himself.
A people whom I have not known shall serve me - People that I had not before heard of. This is the language of confident faith that his kingdom would be still further extended, so as to embrace nations before unknown to him. His past victories, and the fact that his kingdom had been so established and was already so extended, justified the expectation that it would still be further enlarged; that the fame of his conquests would reach other nations, and that they would willingly yield themselves to him. After the victories which he had achieved, as celebrated in this psalm, that might be expected to follow as a matter of course. It is the triumphant exultation of a conqueror, and it seems to have been his expectation, not that his successors would extend the empire, but, that other nations would become voluntarily subject to him.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 18:43. The strivings of the people — Disaffections and insurrections among my own subjects, as in the revolt of Absalom, the civil war of Abner in favour of Ish-bosheth, c.
The head of the heathen — ראש גוים rosh goyim, "the chief," or "governor, of the nations" all the circumjacent heathen people; all these were subdued by David, and brought under tribute.
A people whom I have not known — The people whom he knew were those of the twelve tribes; those whom he did not know were the Syrians, Philistines, Idumeans, &c. All these served him, that is, paid him tribute.
