Lectionary Calendar
Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
the Week of Proper 18 / Ordinary 23
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Young's Literal Translation
Psalms 35:2
Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise for my help,
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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.
Contemporary English Version
Shield me and help me.
Shield me and help me.
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!
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
1 By David. Strive, Jehovah, with my strivers, fight with my fighters, 2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and rise for my help, 3 And draw out spear and lance, To meet my pursuers. Say to my soul, `Thy salvation I [am].' 4 They are ashamed and blush, those seeking my soul, Turned backward and confounded, Those devising my evil. 5 They are as chaff before wind, And a messenger of Jehovah driving away. 6 Their way is darkness and slipperiness, And a messenger of Jehovah their pursuer. 7 For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul. 8 Meet him doth desolation -- he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it. 9 And my soul is joyful in Jehovah, It rejoiceth in His salvation. 10 All my bones say, `Jehovah, who is like Thee, Delivering the poor from the stronger than he, And the poor and needy from his plunderer.'
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
for I have known him, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.'
for I have known him, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.'
Genesis 31:19
And Laban hath gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stealeth the teraphim which her father hath;
And Laban hath gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stealeth the teraphim which her father hath;
Genesis 31:34
And Rachel hath taken the teraphim, and putteth them in the furniture of the camel, and sitteth upon them; and Laban feeleth all the tent, and hath not found;
And Rachel hath taken the teraphim, and putteth them in the furniture of the camel, and sitteth upon them; and Laban feeleth all the tent, and hath not found;
Genesis 34:2
and Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the land, seeth her, and taketh her, and lieth with her, and humbleth her;
and Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the land, seeth her, and taketh her, and lieth with her, and humbleth her;
Genesis 35:1
And God saith unto Jacob, `Rise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared unto thee in thy fleeing from the face of Esau thy brother.'
And God saith unto Jacob, `Rise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared unto thee in thy fleeing from the face of Esau thy brother.'
Genesis 35:2
And Jacob saith unto his household, and unto all who [are] with him, `Turn aside the gods of the stranger which [are] in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;
And Jacob saith unto his household, and unto all who [are] with him, `Turn aside the gods of the stranger which [are] in your midst, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;
Genesis 35:3
and we rise, and go up to Bethel, and I make there an altar to God, who is answering me in the day of my distress, and is with me in the way that I have gone.'
and we rise, and go up to Bethel, and I make there an altar to God, who is answering me in the day of my distress, and is with me in the way that I have gone.'
Genesis 35:4
And they give unto Jacob all the gods of the stranger that [are] in their hand, and the rings that [are] in their ears, and Jacob hideth them under the oak which [is] by Shechem;
And they give unto Jacob all the gods of the stranger that [are] in their hand, and the rings that [are] in their ears, and Jacob hideth them under the oak which [is] by Shechem;
Genesis 35:7
and he buildeth there an altar, and proclaimeth at the place the God of Bethel: for there had God been revealed unto him, in his fleeing from the face of his brother.
and he buildeth there an altar, and proclaimeth at the place the God of Bethel: for there had God been revealed unto him, in his fleeing from the face of his brother.
Genesis 35:10
and God saith to him, `Thy name [is] Jacob: thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel is thy name;' and He calleth his name Israel.
and God saith to him, `Thy name [is] Jacob: thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel is thy name;' and He calleth 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.
