Psalm 18:39
New International Version
You armed me with strength for battle; you humbled my adversaries before me.

New Living Translation
You have armed me with strength for the battle; you have subdued my enemies under my feet.

English Standard Version
For you equipped me with strength for the battle; you made those who rise against me sink under me.

Berean Standard Bible
You have armed me with strength for battle; You have subdued my foes beneath me.

King James Bible
For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

New King James Version
For You have armed me with strength for the battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

New American Standard Bible
For You have encircled me with strength for battle; You have forced those who rose up against me to bow down under me.

NASB 1995
For You have girded me with strength for battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

NASB 1977
For Thou hast girded me with strength for battle; Thou hast subdued under me those who rose up against me.

Legacy Standard Bible
For You have girded me with strength for battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

Amplified Bible
For You have encircled me with strength for the battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

Christian Standard Bible
You have clothed me with strength for battle; you subdue my adversaries beneath me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You have clothed me with strength for battle; You subdue my adversaries beneath me.

American Standard Version
For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You have girded me with power in war, and you will make those who stand against me to bow under me.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For thou hast girded me with strength for war: thou hast beaten down under me all that rose up against me.

Contemporary English Version
You helped me win victories, and you forced my attackers to fall victim to me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou hast girded me with strength unto battle; and hast subdued under me them that rose up against me.

English Revised Version
For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You armed me with strength for battle. You made my opponents bow at my feet.

Good News Translation
You give me strength for the battle and victory over my enemies.

International Standard Version
You clothed me with strength for war; you will subdue under me those who rise up against me.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle; Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

Literal Standard Version
And You gird me [with] strength for battle, | You cause my withstanders to bow under me.

Majority Standard Bible
You have armed me with strength for battle; You have subdued my foes beneath me.

New American Bible
You girded me with valor for war, subjugated my opponents beneath me.

NET Bible
You give me strength for battle; you make my foes kneel before me.

New Revised Standard Version
For you girded me with strength for the battle; you made my assailants sink under me.

New Heart English Bible
For you have equipped me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

Webster's Bible Translation
For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

World English Bible
For you have armed me with strength to the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

Young's Literal Translation
And Thou girdest me with strength for battle, Causest my withstanders to bow under me.

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Context
The LORD is My Rock
38I crushed them so they could not rise; they have fallen under my feet. 39You have armed me with strength for battle; You have subdued my foes beneath me. 40You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.…

Cross References
1 Samuel 2:4
The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble are equipped with strength.

Psalm 18:32
It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way clear.

Psalm 18:47
the God who avenges me and subdues nations beneath me,

Psalm 144:2
He is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer. He is my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.

Isaiah 45:5
I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will equip you for battle, though you have not known Me,

Jeremiah 46:15
Why have your warriors been laid low? They cannot stand, for the LORD has thrust them down.


Treasury of Scripture

For you have girded me with strength to the battle: you have subdued under me those that rose up against me.

girded

Psalm 18:32
It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

Ezekiel 30:24,25
And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man

subdued [heb.

Psalm 66:3
Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.

2 Samuel 22:40
For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

1 Chronicles 22:18
Is not the LORD your God with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people.

necks

Lamentations 5:5
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

that

Psalm 34:21
Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

2 Samuel 22:41
Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

Proverbs 8:36
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

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Psalm 18
1. David praises God for his manifold and marvelous blessings














Verse 39. - For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle. Having boasted of his own actions during the space of two verses (vers. 37, 38), David falls back upon his habitual acknowledgments, that all which he has done has been done wholly through the strength of the Divine arm, which has upheld him, sustained him, and given him the victory. Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me; rather, thou hast bowed down mine adversaries under me (Hengstenberg, Kay, Cheyne).

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Hebrew
You have armed me
וַתְּאַזְּרֵ֣נִי (wat·tə·’az·zə·rê·nî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - second person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 247: To gird, encompass, equip

with strength
חַ֭יִל (ḥa·yil)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2428: A force, an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength

for battle;
לַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה (lam·mil·ḥā·māh)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4421: A battle, war

You have subdued
תַּכְרִ֖יעַ (taḵ·rî·a‘)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3766: To bend the knee, to sink, to prostrate

my foes
קָמַ֣י (qā·may)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

beneath me.
תַּחְתָּֽי׃ (taḥ·tāy)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of


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