2 Samuel 22:40–48

⁴⁰You have armed me with strength for battle;

You have subdued my foes beneath me.

⁴¹You have made my enemies retreat before me;

I destroyed those who hated me.

⁴²They looked, but there was no one to save them —

to the LORD, but He did not answer.

⁴³I ground them as the dust of the earth;

I crushed and trampled them like mud in the streets.

⁴⁴You have delivered me from the strife of my people;

You have preserved me as the head of nations;

a people I had not known shall serve me.

⁴⁵Foreigners cower before me;

when they hear me, they obey me.

⁴⁶Foreigners lose heart

and come trembling^f from their strongholds.

⁴⁷The LORD lives, and blessed be my Rock!

And may God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted—

⁴⁸the God who avenges me

and brings down nations beneath me,