39. I decimated them; they could not rise;they fell at my feet.
40. You girded me with valor for war,subjugated my opponents beneath me.
41. You made my foes expose their necks to me;those who hated me I silenced.
42. They cried for help, but no one saved them;cried to the Lord but received no answer.
43. I ground them to dust before the wind;I left them like mud in the streets.
44. You rescued me from the strife of peoples;you made me head over nations.A people I had not known served me;
45. as soon as they heard of me they obeyed.Foreigners submitted before me;