42 They cried for help, but there was no one to save them –to the Lord, but he did not answer.
43 I beat them as fine as the dust of the earth;I pounded and trampled them like mud in the streets.
44 ‘You have delivered me from the attacks of the peoples;you have preserved me as the head of nations.People I did not know now serve me,
45 foreigners cower before me;as soon as they hear of me, they obey me.
46 They all lose heart;they come trembling from their strongholds.
47 ‘The Lord lives! Praise be to my Rock!Exalted be my God, the Rock, my Saviour!
48 He is the God who avenges me,who puts the nations under me,