Psalms 140:7

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Lord, my Lord, my strong Savior,you shield my head on the day of battle.

Hebrew Names Version
LORD, the Lord, the strength of my yeshu`ah, You have covered my head in the day of battle.

King James Version
O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

English Standard Version
O Lord , my Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

New Century Version
Lord God, my mighty savior, you protect me in battle.

New English Translation
O sovereign Lord , my strong deliverer, you shield my head in the day of battle.

Amplified Bible
"O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You have covered my head in the day of battle.

New American Standard Bible
"GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You have covered my head on the day of battle.

World English Bible
Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You have covered my head in the day of battle.

Geneva Bible (1587)
O Lord God the strength of my saluation, thou hast couered mine head in the day of battel.

Legacy Standard Bible
O Yahweh, O Lord, the strength of my salvation,You have covered my head in the day of battle.

Berean Standard Bible
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You shield my head in the day of battle.

Contemporary English Version
You have the power to save me, and you keep me safe in every battle.

Complete Jewish Bible
I said to Adonai , "You are my God; listen, Adonai , to my plea for mercy."

Darby Translation
Jehovah, the Lord, is the strength of my salvation: thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

Easy-to-Read Version
My Lord God , you are the powerful one who saves me. You protect my head in battle.

George Lamsa Translation
O LORD, my mighty Saviour, thou art the shield of my head in the day of battle.

Good News Translation
My Sovereign Lord , my strong defender, you have protected me in battle.

Lexham English Bible
O Yahweh, my Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

Literal Translation
O Jehovah the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You have covered my head in the day of armor.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O LORDE God, thou strength of my health, thou hast couered my heade in ye daye of battayll.

American Standard Version
O Jehovah the Lord, the strength of my salvation, Thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

Bible in Basic English
O Lord God, the strength of my salvation, you have been a cover over my head in the day of the fight.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I have said unto the LORD: 'Thou art my God'; give ear, O LORD, unto the voice of my supplications.

King James Version (1611)
O God the Lord, the strength of my saluation: thou hast couered my head in the day of battell.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
O Lorde God the strength of my saluation: thou hast couered my head in the day of battayle.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
O Lord God, the strength of my salvation; thou hast screened my head in the day of battle.

English Revised Version
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, Lord, the vertu of myn heelthe; thou madist schadowe on myn heed in the dai of batel.

Update Bible Version
O Yahweh the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You have covered my head in the day of battle.

Webster's Bible Translation
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

New King James Version
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You have covered my head in the day of battle.

New Living Translation
O Sovereign Lord , the strong one who rescued me, you protected me on the day of battle.

New Life Bible
O God the Lord, the strength that saves me, You have covered my head in the day of battle.

New Revised Standard
O Lord , my Lord, my strong deliverer, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
O Yahweh, My Lord, my saving strength, thou hast screened my head in the day of battle.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(139-8) O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: thou hast overshadowed my head in the day of battle.

Revised Standard Version
O LORD, my Lord, my strong deliverer, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

Young's Literal Translation
O Jehovah, my Lord, strength of my salvation, Thou hast covered my head in the day of armour.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You have covered my head in the day of battle.

Contextual Overview

¹A David Psalm God , get me out of here, away from this evil; protect me from these vicious people. All they do is think up new ways to be bad; they spend their days plotting war games. They practice the sharp rhetoric of hate and hurt, speak venomous words that maim and kill. God , keep me out of the clutch of these wicked ones, protect me from these vicious people; Stuffed with self-importance, they plot ways to trip me up, determined to bring me down. These crooks invent traps to catch me and do their best to incriminate me. ⁶I prayed, " God , you're my God! Listen, God ! Mercy! God , my Lord, Strong Savior, protect me when the fighting breaks out! Don't let the wicked have their way, God , don't give them an inch!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the strength: Psalms 18:1, Psalms 18:2, Psalms 18:35, Psalms 27:1, Psalms 28:7, Psalms 28:8, Psalms 59:17, Psalms 62:2, Psalms 62:7, Psalms 89:26, Psalms 95:1, Deuteronomy 33:27-29, Isaiah 12:2

thou hast covered: Psalms 144:10, 1 Samuel 17:36, 1 Samuel 17:37, 1 Samuel 17:45-51, 2 Samuel 8:6, 2 Samuel 8:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 15:2 - song Psalms 43:2 - the God Psalms 44:7 - But Psalms 61:3 - thou Psalms 88:1 - Lord Isaiah 33:6 - strength

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation,.... Temporal and spiritual, which he was able to effect; the mighty God and mighty Saviour: and this encouraged David to believe he should have deliverance; and this secured, confirmed, and established it to him; and to which he was the more induced by what experience he had had of the divine goodness to him, as follows:

thou hast covered my head in the day of battle; with the helmet of salvation, as Kimchi, Aben Ezra, and Arama observe; which, in a spiritual sense, is to a believer the hope of salvation, Ephesians 6:17 1 Thessalonians 5:8; a defensive weapon to him; and protects him while he is engaging with his spiritual enemies in this his state of warfare, sin, Satan, and the world. Perhaps David may have respect to the divine protection of him, when he fought with Goliath. Salvation was Christ's helmet, when he engaged with all his and our enemies; even with all the powers of darkness, and obtained deliverance for us, Isaiah 59:16.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O God the Lord ... - literally, “Yahweh, Lord, the strength of my salvation” The word rendered “God,” in the original, is יהוה Yahweh. The address is to Yahweh as the Lord; that is, as the supreme Ruler - who presides over all things. Him the psalmist acknowledged as “his” Lord and Ruler. The phrase “the strength of my salvation” means the strength or power on which my safety depends. I have no other hope of deliverance but in thee.

Thou hast covered my head in the day of battle - Thou hast been a shield unto me. Literally, “In the day of arms,” or of armor, 1 Kings 10:25; Ezekiel 39:9-10.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 140:7. Thou hast covered my head — Not only when I fought with the proud blaspheming Philistine; but in the various attempts made against my life by my sworn enemies.