43. I beat them fine as the dust of the earth;I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.
44. “You delivered me from strife with my people;you kept me as the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.
45. Foreigners came cringing to me;as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.
46. Foreigners lost heartand came trembling out of their fortresses.
47. “The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock,and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation,