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Good News Translation

Psalms 35:2

Take your shield and armor and come to my rescue.

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.
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
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.
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 Oppose those who oppose me, Lord , and fight those who fight against me! 2 Take your shield and armor and come to my rescue. 3 Lift up your spear and war ax against those who pursue me. Promise that you will save me. 4 May those who try to kill me be defeated and disgraced! May those who plot against me be turned back and confused! 5 May they be like straw blown by the wind as the angel of the Lord pursues them! 6 May their path be dark and slippery while the angel of the Lord strikes them down! 7 Without any reason they laid a trap for me and dug a deep hole to catch me. 8 But destruction will catch them before they know it; they will be caught in their own trap and fall to their destruction! 9 Then I will be glad because of the Lord ; I will be happy because he saved me. 10 With all my heart I will say to the Lord , "There is no one like you. You protect the weak from the strong, the poor from the oppressor."

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 in order that he may command his sons and his descendants to obey me and to do what is right and just. If they do, I will do everything for him that I have promised."
Genesis 31:19
Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and during his absence Rachel stole the household gods that belonged to her father.
Genesis 31:34
Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in a camel's saddlebag and was sitting on them. Laban searched through the whole tent, but did not find them.
Genesis 34:2
When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who was chief of that region, saw her, he took her and raped her.
Genesis 35:1
God said to Jacob, "Go to Bethel at once, and live there. Build an altar there to me, the God who appeared to you when you were running away from your brother Esau."
Genesis 35:2
So Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that you have; purify yourselves and put on clean clothes.
Genesis 35:3
We are going to leave here and go to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who helped me in the time of my trouble and who has been with me everywhere I have gone."
Genesis 35:4
So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods that they had and also the earrings that they were wearing. He buried them beneath the oak tree near Shechem.
Genesis 35:7
He built an altar there and named the place for the God of Bethel, because God had revealed himself to him there when he was running away from his brother.
Genesis 35:10
God said to him, "Your name is Jacob, but from now on it will be Israel." So God named him 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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