He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their heart.
(56)διεσχόρπισεν,, he utterly discomfits, a metaphor derived from putting to flight a defeated enemy. The word not unfrequently occurs in the Septuagint, but very rarely in the classical writers; though one example is adduced by Kuinoel from Aelian, Var. Hist. 13:46: τοὺς μέν διεσχόζπισεν, οὓς, (read τοὺς)δὲ ἀπέχτειενε. ” — Bloomfield’s Greek Testament. 