Psalms Chapter 18 verse 43 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 18:43

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; Thou hast made me the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
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BBE Psalms 18:43

You have made me free from the fightings of the people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.
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DARBY Psalms 18:43

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; thou hast made me the head of the nations: a people I knew not doth serve me.
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KJV Psalms 18:43

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
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WBT Psalms 18:43

Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
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WEB Psalms 18:43

You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
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YLT Psalms 18:43

Thou dost deliver me From the strivings of the people, Thou placest me for a head of nations, A people I have not known do serve me.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 43. - Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people. David now approaches his conclusion. In one verse he at once sums up his past deliverances and anticipates fresh glories. God has delivered him from the strivings of those who were hostile to him among his own people (see vers. 4-18), and has also given him victory over the heathen. In the future he will do even more. And thou hast made me the head of the heathen. The antithesis between "people" (עָם) and "heathen," or "nations" (גויָם), is unmistakable. The long series of David's victories have made him "head" over the latter. This is less clearly seen in the history of David's reign than in the description given of the state of the kingdom inherited from David by Solomon (1 Kings 4:21, 24). A people whom I have not known shall serve me. It is not clear that this was ever fulfilled literally in the person of David, and, we are entitled to explain it as a Messianic prophecy, parallel with that of Psalm 2:8.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(43) People.--The parallelism favours the interpretation which takes "people" as equivalent to peoples--the Gentiles. But as in Samuel it is "my people," explain it of the early political troubles of David. Notice also in Samuel "preserved," instead of "made."