Psalm 18:43 {17:44}
Good News Translation
You saved me from a rebellious people and made me ruler over the nations; people I did not know have now become my subjects.

New Revised Standard Version
You delivered me from strife with the peoples; you made me head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.

Contemporary English Version
You rescued me from stubborn people, and you made me the leader of foreign nations, who are now my slaves.

New American Bible
You rescued me from the strife of peoples; you made me head over nations. A people I had not known served me;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people; thou wilt make me head of the Gentiles.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people; thou wilt make me head of the Gentiles.

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2 Samuel 2:9,10 And made him king over Galaad, and over Gessuri, and over Jezrahel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel. . . .

2 Samuel 3:1 Now there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: David prospering and growing always stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul decaying daily.

2 Samuel 5:1-7 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, saying: Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh. . . .

Acts 5:31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand, to be Prince and Saviour. to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.

made

Psalm 22:27,28 All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted to the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight. . . .

Psalm 108:9 Moab the pot of my hope. Over Edom I will stretch out my shoe: the aliens are become my friends.

2 Samuel 5:1-25 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron, saying: Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh. . . .

2 Samuel 8:1-18 And it came to pass after this that David defeated the Philistines, and brought them down, and David took the bridle of tribute out of the hand of the Philistines, . . .

2 Samuel 10:1-19 And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanon his son reigned in his stead. . . .

2 Samuel 22:44-46 Thou wilt save me from the contradictions of my people: thou wilt keep me to be the head of the Gentiles: the people which I know not, shall serve me, . . .

Isaiah 49:6,22,23 And he said: It is a small thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to convert the dregs of Israel. Behold, I have given thee to be the light of the Gentiles, that thou mayst be my salvation even to the farthest part of the earth. . . .

Isaiah 52:15 He shall sprinkle many nations, kings shall shut their mouth at him: for they to whom it was not told of him, have seen: and they that heard not, have beheld.

Romans 15:12,18 And again, Isaias saith: There shall be a root of Jesse; and he that shall rise up to rule the Gentiles, in him the Gentiles shall hope. . . .

Ephesians 1:22 And he hath subjected all things under his feet and hath made him head over all the church,

a people

Isaiah 52:15 He shall sprinkle many nations, kings shall shut their mouth at him: for they to whom it was not told of him, have seen: and they that heard not, have beheld.

Isaiah 55:5 Behold thou shalt call a nation, which thou knewest not: and the nations that knew not thee shall run to thee, because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee.

Hosea 1:10 And the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, that is without measure, and shall not be numbered. And it shall be in the place where it shall be said to them: You are not my people: it shall be said to them: Ye are the sons of the living God.

Romans 16:26 (Which now is made manifest by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the precept of the eternal God, for the obedience of faith) known among all nations:

1 Peter 2:10 Who in times past were not a people: but are now the people of God. Who had not obtained mercy: but now have obtained mercy.

Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet: and there were great voices in heaven, saying: The kingdom of this world is become our Lord's and his Christ's, and he shall reign for ever and ever. Amen.

Context
The LORD is My Rock
42And I shall beat them as small as the dust before the wind; I shall bring them to nought, like the dirt in the streets. 43Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people; thou wilt make me head of the Gentiles.44A people which I knew not, hath served me: at the hearing of the ear they have obeyed me.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 3:1
Now there was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: David prospering and growing always stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul decaying daily.

2 Samuel 8:1
And it came to pass after this that David defeated the Philistines, and brought them down, and David took the bridle of tribute out of the hand of the Philistines,

2 Samuel 19:9
And all the people were at strife in all the tribes of Israel, saying: The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines: and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.

Psalm 18:47
O God, who avengest me, and subduest the people under me, my deliverer from my enraged enemies.

Psalm 35:1
For David himself. Judge thou, O Lord, them that wrong me: overthrow them that fight against me.

Psalm 89:27
And I will make him my firstborn, high above the kings of the earth.

Isaiah 55:4
Behold I have given him for a witness to the people, for a leader and a master to the Gentiles.

Isaiah 55:5
Behold thou shalt call a nation, which thou knewest not: and the nations that knew not thee shall run to thee, because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee.

Psalm 18:42
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