Psalms 18:42
I grind them as fine windblown dust; I beat them underfoot like clay in the streets.
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Referenced Verses
- Isa 10:6 : 6 I sent him against a godless nation, I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, to take plunder and to carry away loot, to trample them down like dirt in the streets.
- 2 Kgs 13:7 : 7 Jehoahaz had no army left except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and 10,000 foot soldiers. The king of Syria had destroyed his troops and trampled on them like dust.
- Zech 10:5 : 5 And they will be like warriors trampling the mud of the streets in battle. They will fight, for the LORD will be with them, and will defeat the enemy cavalry.
- Mal 4:3 : 3 You will trample on the wicked, for they will be like ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
- Ps 50:22 : 22 Carefully consider this, you who reject God! Otherwise I will rip you to shreds and no one will be able to rescue you.
- Isa 25:10 : 10 For the LORD’s power will make this mountain secure. Moab will be trampled down where it stands, as a heap of straw is trampled down in a manure pile.
- Isa 41:2 : 2 Who stirs up this one from the east? Who officially commissions him for service? He hands nations over to him, and enables him to subdue kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, like windblown straw with his bow.
- Isa 41:15-16 : 15 “Look, I am making you like a sharp threshing sledge, new and double-edged. You will thresh the mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like straw. 16 You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away; the wind will scatter them. You will rejoice in the LORD; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.
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- 2 Sam 22:38-458 verses93%
38I chase my enemies and destroy them; I do not turn back until I wipe them out.
39I wipe them out and beat them to death; they cannot get up; they fall at my feet.
40You give me strength for battle; you make my foes kneel before me.
41You make my enemies retreat; I destroy those who hate me.
42They cry out, but there is no one to help them; they cry out to the LORD, but he does not answer them.
43I grind them as fine as the dust of the ground; I crush them and stomp on them like clay in the streets.
44You rescue me from a hostile army; you preserve me as a leader of nations; people over whom I had no authority are now my subjects.
45Foreigners are powerless before me; when they hear of my exploits, they submit to me.
- Ps 18:43-442 verses78%
43You rescue me from a hostile army; you make me a leader of nations; people over whom I had no authority are now my subjects.
44When they hear of my exploits, they submit to me. Foreigners are powerless before me;
- Ps 18:37-415 verses78%
37I chase my enemies and catch them; I do not turn back until I wipe them out.
38I beat them to death; they fall at my feet.
39You give me strength for battle; you make my foes kneel before me.
40You make my enemies retreat; I destroy those who hate me.
41They cry out, but there is no one to help them; they cry out to the LORD, but he does not answer them.
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19I scattered them among the nations; they were dispersed throughout foreign countries. In accordance with their behavior and their deeds I judged them.
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14You pierce the heads of his warriors with a spear. They storm forward to scatter us; they shout with joy as if they were plundering the poor with no opposition.
- Ps 118:10-123 verses73%
10All the nations surrounded me. Indeed, in the name of the LORD I pushed them away.
11They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. Indeed, in the name of the LORD I pushed them away.
12They surrounded me like bees. But they disappeared as quickly as a fire among thorns. Indeed, in the name of the LORD I pushed them away.
- Isa 41:15-162 verses73%
15“Look, I am making you like a sharp threshing sledge, new and double-edged. You will thresh the mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like straw.
16You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away; the wind will scatter them. You will rejoice in the LORD; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.
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19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
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2Who stirs up this one from the east? Who officially commissions him for service? He hands nations over to him, and enables him to subdue kings. He makes them like dust with his sword, like windblown straw with his bow.
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18How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?
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13O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind!
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26The Weakness of Other Gods“I said,‘I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed.
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14‘Rather, I will sweep them away in a storm into all the nations they are not familiar with.’ Thus the land had become desolate because of them, with no one crossing through or returning, for they had made the fruitful land a waste.”
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17I will scatter them before their enemies like dust blowing in front of a burning east wind. I will turn my back on them and not look favorably on them when disaster strikes them.”
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24“The LORD says,‘That is why I will scatter your people like chaff that is blown away by a desert wind.
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9You will break them with an iron scepter; you will smash them like a potter’s jar!’”
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7In the abundance of your majesty you have overthrown those who rise up against you. You sent forth your wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
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7The LORD continued,“In every town in the land I will purge them like straw blown away by the wind. I will destroy my people. I will kill off their children. I will do so because they did not change their behavior.
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13Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles before a strong gale.
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9Do to them as you did to Midian– as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River!
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6I trampled nations in my anger, I made them drunk in my rage, I splashed their blood on the ground.”
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13Hide them in the dust together, imprison them in the grave.
- Jer 18:21-222 verses71%
21So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.
22Let cries of terror be heard in their houses when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for me to step into.
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14They come in as through a wide breach; amid the crash they come rolling in.
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18Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.
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40They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.
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12The fortified city(along with the very tops of your walls) he will knock down, he will bring it down, he will throw it down to the dusty ground.
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16I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known anything about. I will send people chasing after them with swords until I have destroyed them.’”
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15Why do you crush my people and grind the faces of the poor?” The Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies has spoken.
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31I will pour out my anger on you; the fire of my fury I will blow on you. I will hand you over to brutal men, who are skilled in destruction.
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5And they will be like warriors trampling the mud of the streets in battle. They will fight, for the LORD will be with them, and will defeat the enemy cavalry.
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31So I have poured my anger on them, and destroyed them with the fire of my fury. I hereby repay them for what they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
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10But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.