44You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.


In Context

41 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.

42 They looked, but there was none to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn't answer them.

43 Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.

44 You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people. You have kept me to be the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known will serve me.

45 The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me.

46 The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of their close places.

2 Samuel 22:44 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

22:44"You have delivered me from the attacks of my people; you have preserved me as the head of nations. People I did not know are subject to me,

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:44Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me [to be] head of the heathen: a people [which] I knew not shall serve me.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

22:44Thou 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,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

22:44Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people; Thou hast kept me to be the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:44And thou hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, Thou hast kept me to be head of the nations: A people I knew not doth serve me:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

22:44Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people; thou hast kept me to be the head of the nations: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:44Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

22:44And — Thou dost deliver me From the strivings of my people, Thou placest me for a head of nations; A people I have not known do serve me.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:44You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people, you have kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.