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43 I beat them fine as the dust of the earth,
    I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.

44 “Thou didst deliver me from strife with the peoples;[a]
    thou didst keep me as the head of the nations;
    people whom I had not known served me.
45 Foreigners came cringing to me;
    as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.

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  1. 2 Samuel 22:44 Gk: Heb from strife with my people

43 I beat them as fine as the dust(A) of the earth;
    I pounded and trampled(B) them like mud(C) in the streets.

44 “You have delivered(D) me from the attacks of the peoples;
    you have preserved(E) me as the head of nations.
People(F) I did not know now serve me,
45     foreigners cower(G) before me;
    as soon as they hear of me, they obey me.(H)

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