2 Samuel 22:44 - The Scriptures 1998 “And You deliver me from the strivings of my people, You safeguard me as the head of the nations; A people I have not known serve me. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You also have delivered me from strife with my people; You kept me as the head of the nations. People whom I had not known served me. American Standard Version (1901) Thou 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. Common English Bible You delivered me from struggles with many people; you appointed me the leader of many nations. Strangers come to serve me. Catholic Public Domain Version You will save me from the contradictions of my people. You will preserve me to be the head of the Gentiles; a people I do not know shall serve me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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, |
And it came to be, that all the people were contending throughout all the tribes of Yisra’ĕ
So the woman in her wisdom went to all the people. And they cut off the head of Sheḇ
He judges among the nations, He shall fill the nations with dead bodies, He shall crush the Head over the mighty earth!
You deliver me from the strivings of the people, You set me at the head of the nations; A people I have not known serve me.
‘Ask of Me, and I make the gentiles Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth Your possession.
“See, I have given Him as a witness to the people, a Leader and a Commander for the people.
“See, a nation you do not know you shall call, and a nation who does not know you run to you, because of יהוה your Elohim, and the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕ
“For the nation and the reign that do not serve you shall perish, and those gentiles shall be utterly laid waste.
“I have let Myself be inquired of, not by those who asked; I was found, not by those who sought Me. I said, ‘Here I am, here I am,’ to a nation not calling on My Name.
“And to Him was given rulership and preciousness and a reign, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His rule is an everlasting rule which shall not pass away, and His reign that which shall not be destroyed.
“And I shall sow her for Myself in the earth, and I shall have compassion on her who had not obtained compassion. And I shall say to those who were not My people, ‘You are My people,’ while they say, ‘My Elohim!’ ”
And again, Yeshayahu says, “There shall be a root of Yishai, and He who shall rise to reign over the gentiles, on Him the gentiles shall set their expectation.”
“And יהוה shall make you the head and not the tail. And you shall be only on top, and not be beneath, if you obey the commands of יהוה your Elohim, which I command you today, to guard and do.
And the seventh messenger sounded, and there came to be loud voices in the heaven, saying, “The reign of this world has become the reign of our Master, and of His Messiah, and He shall reign forever and ever!”