²⁷ There is none weary, nor stumbling in it, It doth not slumber, nor sleep, Nor opened hath been the girdle of its loins, Nor drawn away the latchet of its sandals.

⁷ As mighty ones they run, As men of war they go up a wall, And each in his own ways they do go, And they embarrass not their paths.

⁸ And each his brother they press not, Each in his way they go on, If by the missile they fall, they are not cut off.

¹⁸ The bands of kings He hath opened, And He bindeth a girdle on their loins.

¹³ because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done -- to stand.

¹⁴ Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,

⁶ then the king's countenance hath changed, and his thoughts do trouble him, and the joints of his loins are loosed, and his knees are smiting one against another.

⁵ I `am' Jehovah, and there is none else, Except Me there is no God, I gird thee, and thou hast not known Me.

¹ Thus said Jehovah, To His anointed, to Cyrus, Whose right hand I have laid hold on, To subdue nations before him, Yea, loins of kings I loose, To open before him two-leaved doors, Yea, gates are not shut:

⁵ And righteousness hath been the girdle of his loins, And faithfulness -- the girdle of his reins.

¹ Jehovah hath reigned, Excellency He hath put on, Jehovah put on strength, He girded Himself, Also -- established is the world, unmoved.

³² God! who is girding me `with' strength, And He maketh perfect my way.

²¹ Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble.

⁵ `And also, thou hast known that which he did to me -- Joab son of Zeruiah -- that which he did to two heads of the hosts of Israel, to Abner son of Ner, and to Amasa son of Jether -- that he slayeth them, and maketh the blood of war in peace, and putteth the blood of war in his girdle, that `is' on his loins, and in his sandals that `are' on his feet;

²⁵ Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers -- fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair.