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Psalms 18:43

You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.

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ASV

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; Thou hast made me the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

KJV

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
תְּפַלְּטֵנִי֮te.fa.le.te.Niyou delivered meH6403 →
מֵרִ֪יבֵ֫יme.Ri.Veifrom [the] strivings ofH7379 →
עָ֥ם'ama peopleH5971 →
תְּ֭שִׂימֵנִיTe.si.me.niyou appointed meH7760 →
לְרֹ֣אשׁle.Roshto [the] head ofH7218 →
גּוֹיִ֑םgo.YimnationsH1471 →
עַ֖ם'ama peopleH5971 →
לֹא־lo'-[which] notH3808 →
יָדַ֣עְתִּיya.Da'.tiI knewH3045 →
יַֽעַבְדֽוּנִי׃Ya.'av.Du.nithey serve meH5647 →

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Isaiah 55:5Surely you will summon a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you will run to you. For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, has bestowed glory on you.”2 Samuel 3:1Now the war between the house of Saul and the house of David was protracted. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.1 Peter 2:10Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.Isaiah 52:15so He will sprinkle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him. For they will see what they have not been told, and they will understand what they have not heard.2 Samuel 19:9And all the people throughout the tribes of Israel were arguing, “The king rescued us from the hand of our enemies and delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled the land because of Absalom.Ephesians 1:22And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,Psalms 18:16He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.Psalms 22:27–28All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.Revelation 11:15Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.”Romans 15:18I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,Romans 16:26but now revealed and made known through the writings of the prophets by the command of the eternal God, in order to lead all nations to the obedience that comes from faith—Acts 5:31God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior, in order to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.Romans 15:12And once more, Isaiah says: “The Root of Jesse will appear, One who will arise to rule over the Gentiles; in Him the Gentiles will put their hope.”2 Samuel 22:44–46You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.2 Samuel 2:9–10and made him king over Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, and Benjamin—over all Israel.Isaiah 55:4Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations, a leader and commander of the peoples.Esther 8:17In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.Hosea 1:10Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’

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Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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