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Green's Literal Translation

Psalms 35:2

Take hold of a shield and buckler, and arise as my help.

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.
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 A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, contend with those who strive against me; fight those who fight against me. 2 Take hold of a shield and buckler, and arise as my help. 3 Draw out the spear and close ranks to meet my pursuers; say to my soul, I am your salvation. 4 Let those who seek my soul be ashamed and disgraced; let them be turned back and brought to confusion, those who plot evil to me. 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind, and the Angel of Jehovah driving away. 6 Let their way be dark and slippery, and the Angel of Jehovah their pursuer. 7 For they have hidden their pit-net for me without cause; without cause they have dug for my soul. 8 Let destruction come on him; he will not know; and let his net which he concealed catch him; let him fall in it, into destruction. 9 And my soul shall be joyful in Jehovah; it will rejoice in His salvation. 10 All my bones shall say: O Jehovah, who is like You, who delivers the poor from those stronger than he; yes, 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, so that whatever he may command his sons and his house after him, even they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the intent that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He has spoken of him.
Genesis 31:19
And Laban went to shear his sheep. And Rachel stole the household idols which were her father's.
Genesis 31:34
And Rachel had taken the household idols and put them into the camel's saddle; and she sat on them. And Laban felt around all the tent, but did not find.
Genesis 34:2
And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, and took her, and lay with her, and humbled her.
Genesis 35:1
And God said to Jacob, Rise up, go to Bethel and live there. And make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled before your brother Esau.
Genesis 35:2
And Jacob said to his house, and to all those with him, Put away the strange gods in your midst, and purify yourselves, and change your clothing.
Genesis 35:3
And let us rise up and go up to Bethel. And I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress. And He was with me in the way in which I went.
Genesis 35:4
And they gave all the strange gods in their hand to Jacob, and the earrings which were in their ears. And Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.
Genesis 35:7
And he built an altar there and called the place Elbethel; because God revealed Himself to him there when he fled from the face of his brother.
Genesis 35:10
And God said to him, Your name is Jacob; your name will not any more be called Jacob, but Israel will be your name. And 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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