43. I crushed them like the dust of the land,like the mud of the streets, I ground them and stamped them down.
44. You have also delivered me from the strivings of my people;You have kept me as the head of the nations.A people whom I have not known will serve me.
45. Foreigners submit to me, cringing;as soon as they hear, they obey me.
46. Foreigners lose heart;they gird themselves as they leave their fortresses.
47. The Lord lives; blessed be my rock.May the God of the rock of my salvation be exalted,
48. the God who gave me retributionand brought down peoples under me,