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Psalm 18:45

The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their strongholds.

43You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
44As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
45The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their strongholds.
46The LORD lives! Blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,
47even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.
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Foreign foes come trembling out of their strongholds in David’s victory song, a stark picture of defeat where fortified places can no longer protect them.

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Where else Scripture says this

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Micah 7:17They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth, they will come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to the LORD our …Both describe people coming trembling out of fortified or hidden places, with Micah naming their fear before the LORD.
Revelation 6:16They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,Both passages link fear with places of shelter: foreigners leave their strongholds, while Revelation’s speakers ask mountains to hide them.
James 1:11For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass; and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will …Both use “fade away” to describe human decline, though the psalm concerns foreign foes and James concerns a rich man’s pursuits.
Isaiah 24:4The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.Fading marks the collapse in both passages: foreign foes lose strength in the psalm, while Isaiah describes the earth and its lofty people.
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Encouragement

David’s song describes a king’s deliverance from foreign foes; it gives no warrant to threaten people from other nations. His victory belongs to God.

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