2 Samuel

⁴²They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the Lord, but he answered them not. ⁴³Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the streets, and did spread them abroad. ⁴⁴Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people; thou hast kept me to be the head of the nations: a people whom I have not known shall serve me. ⁴⁵The strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me. ⁴⁶The strangers shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places. ⁴⁷The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation: ⁴⁸Even the God that executeth vengeance for me, and bringeth down peoples under me,