<p class="poetry">You give me<n id="1" /> your protective shield;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">your willingness to help enables me to prevail.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Grab your small shield and large shield,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and rise up to help me!p>

<p class="poetry">He stores up<n id="1" /> effective counsel<n id="2" /> for the upright,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and is like<n id="4" /> a shield<n id="5" /> for those who live<n id="6" /> with integrity,<n id="7" />p>

<p class="poetry">and your poverty will come like a robber,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and your need like an armed man.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">and your poverty will come like a bandit,p> <p class="poetry">and your need like an armed robber.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Fall into ranks with your shields ready!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Prepare to march into battle!p>

<p class="poetry">But you, <sc>Lordsc>, are a shield that protects me;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you are my glory<n id="2" /> and the one who restores me.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Every word of God is purified;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he is like<n id="2" /> a shield for those who take refuge in him.<n id="3" />p>

Persia,<n id="1" /> Ethiopia, and Put<n id="2" /> are with them, all of them with shields and helmets.

So the <sc>Lordsc> God expelled him<n id="1" /> from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

<p class="poetry">Worthy of praise is<n id="1" /> the Most High God,p> <p class="poetry">who delivered<n id="2" /> your enemies into your hand.&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">Abram gave Melchizedek<n id="3" /> a tenth of everything.p>

<p class="poetry">The one true God acts in a faithful manner;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s promise is reliable;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he is a shield to all who take shelter in him.p>

<p class="poetry">The one true God acts in a faithful manner;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s promise<n id="2" /> is reliable;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">he is a shield to all who take shelter<n id="4" /> in him.p>

<p class="poetry">You give me your protective shield;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">your right hand supports me;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">your willingness to help<n id="3" /> enables me to prevail.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">There he shattered the arrows,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the shield, the sword, and the rest of the weapons of war.<n id="2" /> (Selah)p>

<p class="poetry">Arrange the table,p> <p class="poetry">lay out<n id="1" /> the carpet,p> <p class="poetry">eat and drink!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Get up, you officers,p> <p class="poetry">smear oil on the shields!<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The Elamites picked up the quiver,p> <p class="poetry">and came with chariots and horsemen;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the men of Kir<n id="2" /> prepared<n id="3" /> the shield.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">O mountains of Gilboa,p> <p class="poetry">may there be no dew or rain on you, nor fields of grain offerings!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For it was there that the shield of warriors was defiled;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the shield of Saul lies neglected without oil.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">God chose new leaders,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">then fighters appeared in the city gates;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but, I swear, not a shield or spear could be found,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">among forty military units<n id="4" /> in Israel.p>

<p class="poetry">Go ahead and<n id="1" /> charge into battle, you horsemen!p> <p class="poetry">Drive furiously, you charioteers!p> <p class="poetry">Let the soldiers march out into battle,p> <p class="poetry">those from Ethiopia and Libya who carry shields,p> <p class="poetry">and those from Lydia<n id="2" /> who are armed with the bow.<n id="3" />p>