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Grab a shield and armor;
    stand up and help me!
Use your spear and ax[a]
    against those who are out to get me!
    Say to me:[b] “I’m your salvation!”
Let those who want me dead
    be humiliated and put to shame.
Let those who intend to hurt me
    be thoroughly frustrated and disgraced.

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  1. Psalm 35:3 Correction
  2. Psalm 35:3 Or my soul; also in 35:4, 7, 9, 12, 13, 17, 24

Take up shield(A) and armor;
    arise(B) and come to my aid.(C)
Brandish spear(D) and javelin[a](E)
    against those who pursue me.
Say to me,
    “I am your salvation.(F)

May those who seek my life(G)
    be disgraced(H) and put to shame;(I)
may those who plot my ruin
    be turned back(J) in dismay.

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  1. Psalm 35:3 Or and block the way