Psalms 18:38

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I crush them, and they cannot get up;they fall beneath my feet.

Hebrew Names Version
I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.

King James Version
I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

English Standard Version
I thrust them through, so that they were not able to rise; they fell under my feet.

New Century Version
I crushed them so they couldn't rise up again. They fell beneath my feet.

New English Translation
I beat them to death; they fall at my feet.

Amplified Bible
I shattered them so that they were not able to rise; They fell [wounded] under my feet.

New American Standard Bible
I shattered them, so that they were not able to rise; They fell under my feet.

World English Bible
I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I haue wounded them, that they were not able to rise: they are fallen vnder my feete.

Legacy Standard Bible
I crushed them, so that they were not able to rise;They fell under my feet.

Berean Standard Bible
I crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet.

Contemporary English Version
I stuck my sword through my enemies, and they were crushed under my feet.

Complete Jewish Bible
"I pursued my enemies and overtook them, without turning back until they were destroyed.

Darby Translation
I crushed them, and they were not able to rise: they fell under my feet.

Easy-to-Read Version
I struck them down, and they could not get up again. They fell under my feet.

George Lamsa Translation
I will smite them so that they shall not be able to stand; they shall fall under my feet.

Good News Translation
I strike them down, and they cannot rise; they lie defeated before me.

Lexham English Bible
I struck them and they were not able to stand up; they fell under my feet.

Literal Translation
I have shattered them, and they cannot rise up; they fell under my feet.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I will smyte them, they shall not be able to stonde, but fall vnder my fete.

American Standard Version
I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise: They shall fall under my feet.

Bible in Basic English
I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them; neither did I turn back till they were consumed.

King James Version (1611)
I haue wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen vnder my feete.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I smote them downe, and they are not able to aryse: they haue taken such a fall vnder my feete.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I will dash them to pieces and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet.

English Revised Version
I will smite them through that they shall not be able to rise: they shall fall under my feet.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal pursue myn enemyes, and Y schal take hem; and Y schal not turne til thei failen.

Update Bible Version
I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise: They shall fall under my feet.

Webster's Bible Translation
I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they have fallen under my feet.

New King James Version
I have wounded them, So that they could not rise; They have fallen under my feet.

New Living Translation
I struck them down so they could not get up; they fell beneath my feet.

New Life Bible
I hit them so they were not able to rise. They fell under my feet.

New Revised Standard
I struck them down, so that they were not able to rise; they fell under my feet.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I crushed them, and they were unable to rise, They fell under my feet.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(17-39) I will break them, and they shall not be able to stand: they shall fall under my feet.

Revised Standard Version
I thrust them through, so that they were not able to rise; they fell under my feet.

Young's Literal Translation
I smite them, and they are not able to rise, They fall under my feet,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
I shattered them, so that they were not able to rise; They fell under my feet.

Contextual Overview

³⁰ What a God! His road stretches straight and smooth. Every God -direction is road-tested. Everyone who runs toward him Makes it. ³¹Is there any god like God ? Are we not at bedrock? Is not this the God who armed me, then aimed me in the right direction? Now I run like a deer; I'm king of the mountain. He shows me how to fight; I can bend a bronze bow! You protect me with salvation-armor; you hold me up with a firm hand, caress me with your gentle ways. You cleared the ground under me so my footing was firm. When I chased my enemies I caught them; I didn't let go till they were dead men. I nailed them; they were down for good; then I walked all over them. You armed me well for this fight, you smashed the upstarts. You made my enemies turn tail, and I wiped out the haters. They cried "uncle" but Uncle didn't come; They yelled for God and got no for an answer. I ground them to dust; they gusted in the wind. I threw them out, like garbage in the gutter. ⁴³You rescued me from a squabbling people; you made me a leader of nations. People I'd never heard of served me; the moment they got wind of me they listened. The foreign devils gave up; they came on their bellies, crawling from their hideouts. ⁴⁶Live, God ! Blessings from my Rock, my free and freeing God, towering! This God set things right for me and shut up the people who talked back. He rescued me from enemy anger, he pulled me from the grip of upstarts, He saved me from the bullies. ⁴⁹That's why I'm thanking you, God , all over the world. That's why I'm singing songs that rhyme your name. God's king takes the trophy; God's chosen is beloved. I mean David and all his children— always.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Samuel 17:49-51, 1 Samuel 23:5, 1 Samuel 30:17, 2 Samuel 5:1-25, 2 Samuel 8:1-18, 2 Samuel 10:1-19, 2 Samuel 18:7, 2 Samuel 18:8 2 Samuel 21:15-22, 2 Samuel 22:39

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 10:18 - fled 2 Samuel 10:19 - feared 2 Chronicles 13:20 - did Psalms 27:2 - they Psalms 36:12 - shall Psalms 56:9 - then

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I have wounded them, that they were not able to rise,.... Which was not only true of the Amalekites, but of all with whom David engaged in war;

they are fallen under my feet; either dead, or become subject and tributaries to him; as the Philistines, Moabites, Syrians, and Edomites; see 2 Samuel 8:1. This, with Psalms 18:37, may very well be accommodated to David's antitype, and be expressive of the entire victory he has obtained over all his and his people's enemies; he wounded the heads over many countries, Psalms 110:6. Satan and his principalities and powers, whose head is broke, whose works are destroyed; yea, he himself, which had the power of death, so as not to be able to rise more against Christ, who has led captivity captive: he has also finished and made an end of sin, and overcome the world; nor did he turn back from this work he engaged in until he had made a complete conquest; and moreover he has likewise made his people more than conquerors, through him, over these same enemies; so that the words are also applicable to them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have wounded them ... - I have so weakened them - so entirely prostrated them - that they were not able to rally again. This does not refer so much to wounds inflicted on individuals in the hostile ranks as to the entire host or army. It was so weakened that it could not again be put in battle array. The idea is that of successful pursuit and conquest.

They are fallen under my feet - I have completely trodden them down - a common mode of denoting entire victory, Psalms 119:118; Isaiah 25:10; Lamentations 1:15; Daniel 8:13; Luke 21:24.