Psalm 18:44 {17:45}
Good News Translation
Foreigners bow before me; when they hear me, they obey.

New Revised Standard Version
As soon as they heard of me they obeyed me; foreigners came cringing to me.

Contemporary English Version
They obey and come crawling.

New American Bible
as soon as they heard of me they obeyed. Foreigners submitted before me;

Douay-Rheims Bible
A people which I knew not, hath served me: at the hearing of the ear they have obeyed me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A people which I knew not, hath served me: at the hearing of the ear they have obeyed me.

As soon, etc.

Romans 10:16,17 But all do not obey the gospel. For Isaias saith: Lord, who hath believed our report? . . .

strangers [heb.

Psalm 66:3 Say unto God, How terrible are thy works, O Lord! in the multitude of thy strength thy enemies shall lie to thee.

Psalm 81:15 The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.

Deuteronomy 33:29 Blessed art thou, Israel: who is like to thee, O people, that art saved by the Lord? the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy glory: thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their necks.

2 Samuel 1:13 And David said to the young man that told him: Whence art thou? He answered: I am the son of a stranger of Amalec.

Isaiah 62:8 The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength: Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thy enemies: and the sons of the strangers shall not drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured.

Ezekiel 44:7 In that you have brought in strangers uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, and to defile my house: and you offer my bread, the fat, and the blood: and you have broken my covenant by all your wicked doings.

shall submit.

Psalm 68:30 Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the congregation of bulls with the kine of the people; who seek to exclude them who are tried with silver. Scatter thou the nations that delight in wars:

Psalm 81:15 The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.

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, . . .

Context
The LORD is My Rock
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.45The children that are strangers have lied to me, strange children have faded away, and have halted from their paths.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 33:29
Blessed art thou, Israel: who is like to thee, O people, that art saved by the Lord? the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy glory: thy enemies shall deny thee, and thou shalt tread upon their necks.

Psalm 66:3
Say unto God, How terrible are thy works, O Lord! in the multitude of thy strength thy enemies shall lie to thee.

Psalm 81:15
The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.

Psalm 144:7
Put forth thy hand from on high, take me out, and deliver me from many waters: from the hand of strange children:

Psalm 144:11
Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth hath spoken vanity: and their right hand is the right hand of iniquity:

Psalm 18:43
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