39 I decimated them; they could not rise;they fell at my feet.
40 You girded me with valor for war,subjugated my opponents beneath me.
41 You made my foes expose their necks to me;those who hated me I silenced.
42 They cried for help, but no one saved them;cried to the Lord but received no answer.
43 I ground them to dust before the wind;I left them like mud in the streets.
44 You rescued me from the strife of peoples;you made me head over nations.A people I had not known served me;
45 as soon as they heard of me they obeyed.Foreigners submitted before me;