Psalms 18:42

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

They cry for help, but there is no one to save them—to the LORD, but He does not answer.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְשַׁוְּע֥וּ וְאֵין־מוֹשִׁ֑יעַ עַל־יְ֝הוָ֗ה וְלֹ֣א עָנָֽם׃

Transliteration

yeshave'u and eyn-moshi'a to-YHWH and not anam.

Grammar Details

• *yeshave'u*: piel imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they cry for help
• *eyn*: particle of negation - there is not
• *moshi'a*: hifil participle, masculine singular - one saving
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name
• *anam*: qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - he answered them

Word Meanings

• *yeshave'u*: they cry for help/they call out/they plead
• *moshi'a*: one saving/savior/deliverer
• *anam*: he answered them/he responded to them

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  Then I beat them as fine as the dust before the wind: I cast them out like dirt in the streets.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Then did I beat{H7833} them small as the dust{H6083} before{H6440} the wind;{H7307} I did cast them out{H7324} as the mire{H2916} of the streets.{H2351}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Then did I beat{H7833}{(H8799)} them small as the dust{H6083} before{H6440} the wind{H7307}: I did cast them out{H7324}{(H8686)} as the dirt{H2916} in the streets{H2351}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  I will beate them as small as the dust before the wynde, I will cast them out as ye claye in the stretes.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Then I did beate them small as the dust before the winde: I did treade them flat as the clay in the streetes.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I dyd beat them to powder, like vnto dust in a wynde: I haue brought them as lowe as durt in the streates.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And I beat them as dust before wind, As mire of the streets I empty them out.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.

• 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.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Then I beat them small as the dust before the wind. I cast them out as the mire of the streets.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I grind them as fine windblown dust; I beat them underfoot like clay in the streets.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 10:6 : 6 I send him against a godless nation; I dispatch him against a people at My wrath, to seize plunder, to take spoil, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.
• 2 Kgs 13:7 : 7 Nothing was left for Jehoahaz's army except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had destroyed them, making them like dust to be trampled.
• Zech 10:5 : 5 They will be like mighty warriors, trampling through the mire of the streets in battle. They will fight because the LORD is with them, and the riders on horses will be put to shame.
• Ps 50:22 : 22 Consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver.
• Isa 25:10 : 10 For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain, but Moab will be trampled under him as straw is trampled down in a manure pit.
• Isa 41:2 : 2 Who has stirred up one from the east, calling him in righteousness to his service? He delivers nations before him and subdues kings. He turns them to dust with his sword, and like scattered straw with his bow.
• Isa 41:15-16 : 15 See, I will make you into a sharp threshing sledge, new and covered with many blades. You will thresh the mountains and crush them and reduce the hills to chaff. 16 You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the Lord and glory in the Holy One of Israel.