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Psalm 18:44

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18:44When they hear of my exploits, they submit to me.124

Foreigners are powerless125 before me;

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Footnotes

  1. 124 Heb “at a report of an ear they submit to me.” The report of the psalmist’s exploits is so impressive that those who hear it submit to his rulership without putting up a fight.
  2. 125 For the meaning “be weak, powerless” for כָּחַשׁ (kakhash), see Ps 109:24. The next line (see v. 45a), in which “foreigners” are also mentioned, favors this interpretation. Another option is to translate “cower in fear” (see Deut 33:29; Pss 66:3; 81:15; cf. “cringe”; “came cringing”).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me;

foreigners came cringing to me.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

foreigners cower before me;

as soon as they hear of me, they obey me.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Foreigners submit to me cringing;

as soon as they hear they obey me.

NLTNew Living Translation

As soon as they hear of me, they submit;

foreign nations cringe before me.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

as soon as they heard, they obeyed me.

The children of a foreign land feigned obedience before me.

KJV 1900King James Version

As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me:

The strangers shall submit themselves unto me.