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44 You delivered me from civil war among my own people.
    You preserved me as head of the nations.
        People whom I had never known served me!
45 Foreigners[a] came cringing to me;
    they obeyed as soon as they heard[b] me.
46 Foreigners[c] lost their courage,
    coming trembling from their strongholds.

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  1. 2 Samuel 22:45 Lit. Children of foreigners
  2. 2 Samuel 22:45 MT verbs obeyed and heard are identical in spelling
  3. 2 Samuel 22:46 Lit. Children of foreigners

44 “You have delivered(A) me from the attacks of the peoples;
    you have preserved(B) me as the head of nations.
People(C) I did not know now serve me,
45     foreigners cower(D) before me;
    as soon as they hear of me, they obey me.(E)
46 They all lose heart;
    they come trembling[a](F) from their strongholds.

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  1. 2 Samuel 22:46 Some Septuagint manuscripts and Vulgate (see also Psalm 18:45); Masoretic Text they arm themselves