18 The imperfect verbal forms in this line and in the next two lines are understood as indicating what is typically true. Another option is to translate them with the future tense. See v. 10b.
19 The present translation follows the Qere, many medieval Hebrew manuscripts, the , and the in reading the plural (“his adversaries,” similarly many other English versions) rather than the singular (“his adversary”) of the Kethib.
20 The Hebrew preposition here has the sense of “from within.”
21 The imperfect verbal forms in this and the next line are understood as indicating what is anticipated and translated with the future tense, because at the time of Hannah’s prayer Israel did not yet have a king.
22 Heb “the horn,” here a metaphor for power or strength. Cf. “make his appointed king strong”; “increases the might of his anointed one.”
23 The greatly expands v. 10 with an addition that seems to be taken from Jer 9:23–24. The anointed one is the anticipated king of Israel, as the preceding line makes clear.

In other versions

The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces;

against them he will thunder in heaven.

The Lord will judge the ends of the earth;

he will give strength to his king

and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

those who oppose the Lord will be broken.

The Most High will thunder from heaven;

the Lord will judge the ends of the earth.

“He will give strength to his king

and exalt the horn of his anointed.”

Those who oppose the Lord will be shattered;

he will thunder in the heavens against them.

The Lord will judge the ends of the earth.

He will give power to his king;

he will lift up the horn of his anointed.

Those who fight against the Lord will be shattered.

He thunders against them from heaven;

the Lord judges throughout the earth.

He gives power to his king;

he increases the strength of his anointed one.”

Yahweh will shatter his adversaries;

he will thunder against them in the heavens.

Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth.

He will give strength to his king

and will exalt the might of his anointed one.

The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces;

Out of heaven shall he thunder upon them:

The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth;

And he shall give strength unto his king,

And exalt the horn of his anointed.

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