44 “You delivered me from strife with my people;[a]
    you kept me as the head of (A)the nations;
    (B)people whom I had not known served me.
45 Foreigners came cringing to me;
    as soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me.
46 Foreigners lost heart
    and came trembling[b] (C)out of their fortresses.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 22:44 Septuagint with the peoples
  2. 2 Samuel 22:46 Compare Psalm 18:45; Hebrew equipped themselves

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