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Bishop's Bible

Psalms 35:2

Lay hand vppon a shielde & buckler: and stande vp to helpe me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Anthropomorphisms;   Enemy;   Shield;   War;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Warfare of Saints;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Buckler;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Saul;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Armour, Arms;   English Versions;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Psalms;   Sin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Armour;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Armor;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Habdalah;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for September 10;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Take your shields—large and small—and come to my aid.
Hebrew Names Version
Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help.
King James Version
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
English Standard Version
Take hold of shield and buckler and rise for my help!
New Century Version
Pick up the shield and armor. Rise up and help me.
New English Translation
Grab your small shield and large shield, and rise up to help me!
Amplified Bible
Take hold of shield and buckler (small shield), And stand up for my help.
New American Standard Bible
Take hold of buckler and shield And rise up as my help.
World English Bible
Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Lay hand vpon the shielde and buckler, and stand vp for mine helpe.
Legacy Standard Bible
Take hold of shield and large shieldAnd rise up for my help.
Berean Standard Bible
Take up Your shield and buckler; arise and come to my aid.
Contemporary English Version
Shield me and help me.
Complete Jewish Bible
Grasp your shield and protective gear, and rise to my defense.
Darby Translation
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help;
Easy-to-Read Version
Pick up your shields, large and small. Get up and help me!
George Lamsa Translation
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.
Good News Translation
Take your shield and armor and come to my rescue.
Lexham English Bible
Grasp buckler and shield and rise to my aid.
Literal Translation
Take hold of a shield and buckler, and arise as my help.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Laye honde vpon the shylde and speare, and stonde vp to helpe me.
American Standard Version
Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help.
Bible in Basic English
Be a breastplate to me, and give me your help.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise up to my help.
King James Version (1611)
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand vp for mine helpe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Take hold of shield and buckler, and arise for my help.
English Revised Version
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Take thou armeris and scheeld; and rise vp into help to me.
Update Bible Version
Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help.
Webster's Bible Translation
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.
New King James Version
Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help.
New Living Translation
Put on your armor, and take up your shield. Prepare for battle, and come to my aid.
New Life Bible
Take hold of a safe-covering and rise up to help me.
New Revised Standard
Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise up to help me!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Grasp buckler and shield, and arise in my help;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(34-2) Take hold of arms and shield: and rise up to help me.
Revised Standard Version
Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise for my help!
Young's Literal Translation
Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise for my help,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Take hold of buckler and shield And rise up for my help.

Contextual Overview

1 Pleade thou my cause O God, with them that striue with me: and fight thou agaynst them that fight against me. 2 Lay hand vppon a shielde & buckler: and stande vp to helpe me. 3 Bryng foorth the speare, and stop [the way] against them that persecute me: say vnto my soule, I am thy saluation. 4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backe and brought to cofusion, that imagine mischiefe for me. 5 Let them be as dust before the winde: and let the angell of God scatter [them.] 6 Let their way be darke and slipperie: & let the angell of God persecute them. 7 For without a cause they haue priuily layde for me a pit [full] of their nettes: without a cause they haue made a digyng vnto my soule. 8 Let a sodayne destruction come vpon hym vnawares: and his net that he hath layde priuily catch hym selfe, let him fall into it with [his owne] destruction. 9 [And] my soule shalbe ioyfull in God: it shall reioyce in his saluation. 10 All my bones shall say, God who is lyke vnto thee? whiche deliuerest the poore from hym that is to strong for him: yea the poore and him that is in miserie, from him that spoyleth him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 7:12, Psalms 7:13, Exodus 15:3, Deuteronomy 32:41, Deuteronomy 32:42, Isaiah 13:5, Isaiah 42:13

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:31 - a buckler Psalms 18:37 - General Jeremiah 11:20 - revealed

Cross-References

Genesis 18:19
I knowe this also, that he wyll commaunde his chyldren and his householde after him, that they kepe the way of the Lord, and to do iustice and iudgement, that the Lorde may bryng vppon Abraha that he hath spoken vnto him.
Genesis 31:19
But Laban was gone to sheare his sheepe: and Rachel had stolen her fathers images.
Genesis 31:34
And Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camelles strawe, & sate downe vpon them: And Laban tossed vp all ye tent, but found them not.
Genesis 34:2
Whom whe Sichem the sonne of Hemor the Heuite Lorde of the countrey sawe, he toke her, & lay with her, and forced her.
Genesis 35:1
And God sayd vnto Iacob: aryse, and get thee vp to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an aulter vnto God that appeared vnto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
Genesis 35:2
Then sayde Iacob vnto his householde, and to all that were with hym: put away the straunge gods that are among you, and be cleane, and chaunge your garmentes.
Genesis 35:3
For we wyll aryse and go vp to Bethel, and I wyll make an aulter there vnto God, whiche hearde me in the day of my affliction, and was with me in the way whiche I went.
Genesis 35:4
And they gaue vnto Iacob all the straunge gods whiche they had in their hand, and al their earinges which were in theyr eares, and Iacob hyd them vnder an oke whiche was by Sichem.
Genesis 35:7
And he builded there an aulter, and called the place, the God of Bethel, because that god appeared vnto him there when he fled fro the face of his brother.
Genesis 35:10
And God sayd vnto him: thy name is Iacob, notwithstanding thou shalt be no more called Iacob, but Israel shalbe thy name: & he called his name Israel.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Take hold of shield and buckler,.... Defensive weapons; not that the Lord stands in need of any of these to defend himself with: but the sense is, that he would be as these to David; as he was to him, and is to all his people; namely, their shield and buckler: he gives unto them the shield of salvation; he encompasses them about with his favour as with a shield, and keeps them by his power safe from all their enemies;

and stand up for mine help; for which the Lord arises, and stands by his people, and against their enemies, delivering them out of their hands.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Take hold of shield and buckler - That is, Arm thyself as if for the contest. It is a prayer, in a new form, that God would interpose, and that he would go forth as a warrior against the enemies of the psalmist. On the word “shield,” see the notes at Psalms 5:12. Compare the notes at Ephesians 6:16. On the word “buckler,” see the notes at Psalms 18:2. These terms are derived from the armor of a warrior, and the prayer here is that God would appear in that character for his defense.

And stand up for my help - As a warrior stands up, or stands firm, to arrest the attack of an enemy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 35:2. Take hold of shield and buckler — Let them be discomfited in battle who are striving to destroy my life. It is by the shield and buckler of others, not any of his own, that God overthrows the enemies of his people. This is spoken merely after the manner of men.


 
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