43 Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.

Other Translations of 2 Samuel 22:43

New International Version

43 I beat them as fine as the dust of the earth; I pounded and trampled them like mud in the streets.

English Standard Version

43 I beat them fine as the dust of the earth; I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.

The Message

43 I ground them to dust; they gusted in the wind. I threw them out, like garbage in the gutter.

New King James Version

43 Then I beat them as fine as the dust of the earth; I trod them like dirt in the streets, And I spread them out.

New Living Translation

43 I ground them as fine as the dust of the earth; I trampled them in the gutter like dirt.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Samuel 22:43

Chapter Contents

David's psalm of thanksgiving.

This chapter is a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards nearly as 2 Timothy 4:18. Those who receive signal mercies from God, ought to give him the glory. In the day that God delivered David, he sang this song. While the mercy is fresh, and we are most affected with it, let the thank-offering be brought, to be kindled with the fire of that affection. All his joys and hopes close, as all our hopes should do, in the great Redeemer.