⁸ They all handle the sword, `and' are expert in war: Every man hath his sword upon his thigh, Because of fear in the night.

³ Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one, Thy glory and thy majesty.

⁵ Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, Nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

²¹ So we wrought in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

²² Likewise at the same time said I unto the people, Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.

⁵ Let the saints exult in glory: Let them sing for joy upon their beds.

⁶ `Let' the high praises of God `be' in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand;

⁷ To execute vengeance upon the nations, And punishments upon the peoples;

⁸ To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with fetters of iron;

⁹ To execute upon them the judgment written: This honor have all his saints. Praise ye Jehovah.

³ I Jehovah am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

¹⁶ withal taking up the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil `one'.

¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

¹⁸ with all prayer and supplication praying at all seasons in the Spirit, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,

⁶ so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

⁷ For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.

⁸ But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.