Psalm 18:44–45
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18:44When they hear of my exploits, they submit to me.124
Foreigners are powerless125 before me;
18:45foreigners lose their courage;126
they shake with fear127 as they leave128 their strongholds.129
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- 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.
- 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”).
- 126 Heb “wither, wear out.”
- 127 The meaning of חָרַג (kharag, “shake”) is established on the basis of cognates in Arabic and Aramaic. 2 Sam 22:46 reads חָגַר (khagar), which might mean here, “[they] come limping” (on the basis of a cognate in postbiblical Hebrew). The normal meaning for חָגַר (“gird”) makes little sense here.
- 128 Heb “from.”
- 129 Heb “their prisons.” The besieged cities of the foreigners are compared to prisons.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me;
foreigners came cringing to me.
Foreigners lost heart
and came trembling out of their fortresses.
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
foreigners cower before me;
as soon as they hear of me, they obey me.
They all lose heart;
they come trembling from their strongholds.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Foreigners submit to me cringing;
as soon as they hear they obey me.
Foreigners lose heart
and come trembling from their fortifications.
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NLTNew Living Translation
As soon as they hear of me, they submit;
foreign nations cringe before me.
They all lose their courage
and come trembling from their strongholds.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
as soon as they heard, they obeyed me.
The children of a foreign land feigned obedience before me.
The children of a foreign land lost heart,
and they came trembling from their strongholds.
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KJV 1900King James Version
As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me:
The strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
The strangers shall fade away,
And be afraid out of their close places.
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