Psalms 35:2
Take up Your shield and buckler; arise and come to my aid.
BSB
ASV
Take hold of shield and buckler, And stand up for my help.
KJV
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help.
"Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help." In vivid metaphor the Lord is pictured as coming forth armed for battle, and interposing himself between his servant and his enemies. The greater and lesser protections of providence may be here intended by the two defensive weapons, find by the Lord's standing up is meant his active and zealous preservation of his servant in the perilous hour. This poetic imagery shows how the Psalmist realised the existence and power of God; and thought of him as a real and actual personage, truly working for his afflicted.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Psalms 91:4He will cover you with His feathers; under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and rampart.
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Let me dwell in Your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. Selah
Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy, for in You my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of Your wings I will take shelter until the danger has passed.
Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.
Now this is what the LORD says— He who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your…
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Exodus 15:3The LORD is a warrior, the LORD is His name.
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Who is this King of Glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”
Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war.