Psalms 18:42

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 10:6 : 6 I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.
  • 2 Kgs 13:7 : 7 For out of all his army, Jehoahaz had only fifty horsemen and ten carriages and ten thousand footmen; the king of Aram had given them up to destruction, crushing them like dust.
  • Zech 10:5 : 5 Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.
  • Mal 4:3 : 3 And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies.
  • Ps 50:22 : 22 Now keep this in mind, you who have no memory of God, for fear that you may be crushed under my hand, with no one to give you help:
  • Isa 25:10 : 10 For in this mountain will the hand of the Lord come to rest, and Moab will be crushed down in his place, even as the dry stems of the grain are crushed under foot in the waste place.
  • Isa 41:2 : 2 Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry stems before the wind to his bow.
  • Isa 41:15-16 : 15 See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems. 16 You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 93%

    38 I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

    39 I have sent destruction on them and given them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

    40 For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who came out against me.

    41 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

    42 They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.

    43 Then they were crushed as small as the dust of the earth, stamped down under my feet like the waste of the streets.

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

    45 Men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority: from the time when my name comes to their ears, they will be ruled by me.

  • Ps 18:43-44
    2 verses
    78%

    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.

    44 From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority.

  • Ps 18:37-41
    5 verses
    78%

    37 I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.

    38 I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

    39 For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.

    40 By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

    41 They were crying out, but there was no one to come to their help: even to the Lord, but he gave them no answer.

  • 19 And I sent them in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries: I was their judge, rewarding them for their way and their acts.

  • 14 You have put your spears through his head, his horsemen were sent in flight like dry stems; they had joy in driving away the poor, in making a meal of them secretly.

  • Ps 118:10-12
    3 verses
    73%

    10 All the nations have come round me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

    11 They are round me, yes, they are all about me; but in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

    12 They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

  • Isa 41:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15 See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems.

    16 You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.

  • 19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • 2 Who sent out from the east one who is right wherever he goes? he gives the nations into his hands, and makes him ruler over kings; he gives them as the dust to his sword, as dry stems before the wind to his bow.

  • 18 How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

  • 13 O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind.

  • 26 I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men:

  • 14 But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.

  • 17 I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall.

  • 24 So I will send them in all directions, as dry grass is taken away by the wind of the waste land.

  • 72%

    9 They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.

  • 7 When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass.

  • 7 And I have sent a cleaning wind on them in the public places of the land; I have taken their children from them; I have given my people to destruction; they have not been turned from their ways.

  • 13 But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.

  • 9 Do to them what you did to the Midianites; what you did to Sisera and Jabin, at the stream of Kishon:

  • 6 And in my passion the peoples were crushed under my feet, and broken in my wrath, and I put down their strength to the earth.

  • 13 His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron.

  • Jer 18:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21 For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

    22 Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

  • 14 As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

  • 18 You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

  • 40 And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.

  • 12 And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

  • 16 And I will send them wandering among the nations, among people strange to them and to their fathers: and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them.

  • 15 By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.

  • 31 And I will let loose my burning passion on you, breathing out on you the fire of my wrath: and I will give you up into the hands of men like beasts, trained to destruction.

  • 5 Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.

  • 31 And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.

  • 10 You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters.