39 For you equipped me with strength for the battle;you made those who rise against me sink under me.
40 You made my enemies turn their backs to me,and those who hated me I destroyed.
41 They cried for help, but there was none to save;they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.
42 I beat them fine as dust before the wind;I cast them out like the mire of the streets.
43 You delivered me from strife with the people;you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
44 As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me.
45 Foreigners lost heartand came trembling out of their fortresses.