42 "They looked, but there was none to save; Even to the Lord, but He did not answer them.
43 "Then I pulverized them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and stamped them as the mire of the streets.
44 "You have also delivered me from the contentions of my people; You have kept me as head of the nations; A people whom I have not known serve me.
45 "Foreigners pretend obedience to me; As soon as they hear, they obey me.
46 "Foreigners lose heart, And come trembling out of their fortresses.
47 "The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock; And exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,
48 The God who executes vengeance for me, And brings down peoples under me,