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Pick up your shields, large and small.
    Get up and help me!
Take a spear and javelin
    and fight those who are chasing me.
Tell me, “I will rescue you.”

Some people are trying to kill me.
    Disappoint them and make them ashamed.
    Make them turn and run away.
They are planning to hurt me.
    Defeat and embarrass them.

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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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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 35:3 Or and block the way