the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Psalms 35:2
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Take your shields—large and small—and come to my aid.
Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help.
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
Pick up the shield and armor. Rise up and help me.
Grab your small shield and large shield, and rise up to help me!
Take hold of shield and buckler (small shield), And stand up for my help.
Take hold of buckler and shield And rise up as my help.
Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help.
Lay hand vpon the shielde and buckler, and stand vp for mine helpe.
Take hold of shield and large shieldAnd rise up for my help.
Take up Your shield and buckler; arise and come to my aid.
Shield me and help me.
Grasp your shield and protective gear, and rise to my defense.
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help;
Pick up your shields, large and small. Get up and help me!
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.
Take your shield and armor and come to my rescue.
Grasp buckler and shield and rise to my aid.
Take hold of a shield and buckler, and arise as my help.
Laye honde vpon the shylde and speare, and stonde vp to helpe me.
Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help.
Be a breastplate to me, and give me your help.
Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise up to my help.
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand vp for mine helpe.
Lay hand vppon a shielde & buckler: and stande vp to helpe me.
Take hold of shield and buckler, and arise for my help.
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
Take thou armeris and scheeld; and rise vp into help to me.
Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help.
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.
Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help.
Put on your armor, and take up your shield. Prepare for battle, and come to my aid.
Take hold of a safe-covering and rise up to help me.
Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise up to help me!
Grasp buckler and shield, and arise in my help;
(34-2) Take hold of arms and shield: and rise up to help me.
Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise for my help!
Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise for my help,
Take hold of buckler and shield And rise up for my help.
Contextual Overview
Of David.
Contend, O Lord , with those who contend with me; fight against those who fight against me! 2 Take hold of shield and buckler and rise for my help! 3 Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers! Say to my soul, "I am your salvation!" 4 Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek after my life! Let them be turned back and disappointed who devise evil against me! 5 Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of the Lord driving them away! 6 Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the Lord pursuing them! 7 For without cause they hid their net for me; without cause they dug a pit for my life. 8 Let destruction come upon him when he does not know it! And let the net that he hid ensnare him; let him fall into it—to his destruction! 9 Then my soul will rejoice in the Lord , exulting in his salvation. 10 All my bones shall say, "O Lord , who is like you, delivering the poor from him who is too strong for him, the poor and needy from him who robs 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
For I have chosen him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has promised him."
Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.
Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel's saddle and sat on them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them.
And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her.
God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."
So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments.
Then let us arise and go up to Bethel, so that I may make there an altar to the God who answers me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone."
So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree that was near Shechem.
and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.
And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." So 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 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.