⁸ They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, Because of fear in the night.

³ Gird your sword on your thigh, mighty one: Your splendor and your majesty.

⁵ You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day;

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

²² Likewise at the same time said I to the people, Let everyone 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 rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.

⁶ May the high praises of God be in their mouths, And a two-edged sword in their hand;

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

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

⁹ To execute on them the written judgment. All his saints have this honor. Praise Yah!

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

¹⁶ above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will 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 requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

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

⁷ For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken are drunken in the night.

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