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Contemporary English Version
Psalms 35:2
Shield me and help me.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Take your shields—large and small—and come to my aid.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Take up Your shield and buckler; arise and come to my aid.
Complete Jewish Bible
Grasp your shield and protective gear, and rise to my defense.
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;
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!
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.
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.
Take your shield and armor and come to my rescue.
Lexham English Bible
Grasp buckler and shield and rise to my aid.
Grasp buckler and shield and rise to my aid.
Literal Translation
Take hold of a shield and buckler, and arise as my help.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand vp for mine helpe.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Lay hand vppon a shielde & buckler: and stande vp to helpe me.
Lay hand vppon a shielde & buckler: and stande vp to helpe me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Take hold of shield and buckler, and arise for my help.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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;
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.
(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!
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,
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.
Take hold of buckler and shield And rise up for my help.
Contextual Overview
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(A psalm by David.)
Fight my enemies, Lord ! Attack my attackers! 2 Shield me and help me. 3 Aim your spear at everyone who hunts me down, but promise to save me. 4 Let all who want to kill me be disappointed and disgraced. Chase away and confuse all who plan to harm me. 5 Send your angel after them and let them be like straw in the wind. 6 Make them run in the dark on a slippery road, as your angel chases them. 7 I did them no harm, but they hid a net to trap me, and they dug a deep pit to catch and kill me. 8 Surprise them with disaster! Trap them in their own nets and let them fall and rot in the pits they have dug. 9 I will celebrate and be joyful because you, Lord , have saved me. 10 Every bone in my body will shout: "No one is like the Lord !" You protect the helpless from those in power; you save the poor and needy from those who hurt them.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 have chosen him to teach his family to obey me forever and to do what is right and fair. Then I will give Abraham many descendants, just as I promised."
I have chosen him to teach his family to obey me forever and to do what is right and fair. Then I will give Abraham many descendants, just as I promised."
Genesis 31:19
Before Rachel left, she stole the household idols while Laban was out shearing his sheep.
Before Rachel left, she stole the household idols while Laban was out shearing his sheep.
Genesis 31:34
She had already hidden them in the cushion she used as a saddle and was sitting on it. Laban searched everywhere and did not find them.
She had already hidden them in the cushion she used as a saddle and was sitting on it. Laban searched everywhere and did not find them.
Genesis 34:2
She was seen by Hamor's son Shechem, the leader of the Hivites, and he grabbed her and raped her.
She was seen by Hamor's son Shechem, the leader of the Hivites, and he grabbed her and raped her.
Genesis 35:1
God told Jacob, "Return to Bethel, where I appeared to you when you were running from your brother Esau. Make your home there and build an altar for me."
God told Jacob, "Return to Bethel, where I appeared to you when you were running from your brother Esau. Make your home there and build an altar for me."
Genesis 35:2
Jacob said to his family and to everyone else who was traveling with him: Get rid of your foreign gods! Then make yourselves acceptable to worship God and put on clean clothes.
Jacob said to his family and to everyone else who was traveling with him: Get rid of your foreign gods! Then make yourselves acceptable to worship God and put on clean clothes.
Genesis 35:3
Afterwards, we'll go to Bethel. I will build an altar there for God, who answered my prayers when I was in trouble and who has always been at my side.
Afterwards, we'll go to Bethel. I will build an altar there for God, who answered my prayers when I was in trouble and who has always been at my side.
Genesis 35:4
So everyone gave Jacob their idols and their earrings, and he buried them under the oak tree near Shechem.
So everyone gave Jacob their idols and their earrings, and he buried them under the oak tree near Shechem.
Genesis 35:7
Jacob built an altar there and called it "God of Bethel," because that was the place where God had appeared to him when he was running from Esau.
Jacob built an altar there and called it "God of Bethel," because that was the place where God had appeared to him when he was running from Esau.
Genesis 35:12
I will give you the land that I promised Abraham and Isaac, and it will belong to your family forever.
I will give you the land that I promised Abraham and Isaac, and it will belong to your family forever.
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 âshield,â see the notes at Psalms 5:12. Compare the notes at Ephesians 6:16. On the word âbuckler,â 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.
