44 “You^a have also delivered me from the¹ strivings of my people;
You have kept me as the ^bhead of the nations.
^cA people I have not known shall serve me. ‡

45 The foreigners submit to me;
As soon as they hear, they obey me.

47 “The Lord lives!
Blessed be my Rock!
Let God be exalted,
The ^aRock of my salvation! ‡

48 It is God who avenges me,
And ^asubdues the peoples under me; ‡