Psalm 3:3
New International Version
But you, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high.

New Living Translation
But you, O LORD, are a shield around me; you are my glory, the one who holds my head high.

English Standard Version
But you, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.

Berean Standard Bible
But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.

King James Bible
But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

New King James Version
But You, O LORD, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head.

New American Standard Bible
But You, LORD, are a shield around me, My glory, and the One who lifts my head.

NASB 1995
But You, O LORD, are a shield about me, My glory, and the One who lifts my head.

NASB 1977
But Thou, O LORD, art a shield about me, My glory, and the One who lifts my head.

Legacy Standard Bible
But You, O Yahweh, are a shield about me, My glory, and the One who lifts my head.

Amplified Bible
But You, O LORD, are a shield for me, My glory [and my honor], and the One who lifts my head.

Christian Standard Bible
But you, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But You, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts up my head.

American Standard Version
But thou, O Jehovah, art a shield about me; My glory and the lifter up of my head.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You, LORD JEHOVAH, are my helper and my honor, and the lifter of my head.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But thou, O Lord, art my helper: my glory, and the one that lifts up my head.

Contemporary English Version
But you are my shield, and you give me victory and great honor.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But thou, O Lord art my protector, my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

English Revised Version
But thou, O LORD, art a shield about me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But you, O LORD, are a shield that surrounds me. You are my glory. You hold my head high.

Good News Translation
But you, O LORD, are always my shield from danger; you give me victory and restore my courage.

International Standard Version
But you, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

JPS Tanakh 1917
But thou, O LORD, art a shield about me; My glory, and the lifter up of my head.

Literal Standard Version
And You, O YHWH, [are] a shield for me, | My glory, and lifter up of my head.

Majority Standard Bible
But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.

New American Bible
But you, LORD, are a shield around me; my glory, you keep my head high.

NET Bible
But you, LORD, are a shield that protects me; you are my glory and the one who restores me.

New Revised Standard Version
But you, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

New Heart English Bible
But you, LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

Webster's Bible Translation
But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

World English Bible
But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

Young's Literal Translation
And Thou, O Jehovah, art a shield for me, My honour, and lifter up of my head.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Deliver Me, O LORD!
2Many say of me, “God will not deliver him.” Selah 3But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head. 4To the LORD I cry aloud, and He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah…

Cross References
Psalm 4:2
How long, O men, will my honor be maligned? How long will you love vanity and seek after lies? Selah

Psalm 5:12
For surely You, O LORD, bless the righteous; You surround them with the shield of Your favor.

Psalm 9:13
Be merciful to me, O LORD; see how my enemies afflict me! Lift me up from the gates of death,

Psalm 27:6
Then my head will be held high above my enemies around me. At His tabernacle I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the LORD.

Psalm 28:7
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give thanks to Him with my song.

Psalm 30:1
I will exalt You, O LORD, for You have lifted me up and have not allowed my foes to rejoice over me.

Psalm 41:10
But You, O LORD, be gracious to me and raise me up, that I may repay them.


Treasury of Scripture

But you, O LORD, are a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.

a shield

Psalm 18:2
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

Psalm 28:7
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

Psalm 84:11
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

for.

Psalm 4:3
But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

Psalm 62:7
In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

Isaiah 45:25
In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.

the

Psalm 27:6
And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

Psalm 119:7
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.

Genesis 40:13
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

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Psalm 3
1. The security of God's protection














(3) For me.--Better, behind me. A protection from the emissaries of Absalom, now on his track.

My glory, and the lifter up of mine head.--

"Comp.--

"O et praesidium et dulce decus meum."

HORACE, Ode I., 1:2.

The significance of this sublime trust comes out as we read in 2Samuel 15:30 how the humiliated monarch went barefoot over Olivet, with head bent down and muffled in his mantle; no glory or dignity left; mute and humiliated under the insults and curses of Shimei.

Verse 3. - But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; or, about me(see the Revised Version). (For the sentiment, comp. Genesis 15:1; Deuteronomy 33:29; 2 Samuel 22:3; Psalm 28:7; Psalm 33:20; Psalm 84:9, etc.) The expression has peculiar force in David's mouth, who, as a "man of war," fully appreciated the saving power of a shield. My glory (comp. Psalm 62:7). And the lifter up of mine head. As God had raised up David to the throne (2 Samuel 2:4; 2 Samuel 5:3), and prospered him in his wars (2 Samuel 8:1-14), and exalted him above all the other kings of the period, so he was well able now, if he so willed, to restore him to his place and re-establish him in the monarchy (comp. 2 Samuel 15:25; Psalm 43:3).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But You,
וְאַתָּ֣ה (wə·’at·tāh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

O LORD,
יְ֭הוָה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

are a shield
מָגֵ֣ן (mā·ḡên)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 4043: A shield, a protector, the scaly hide of the crocodile

around me,
בַּעֲדִ֑י (ba·‘ă·ḏî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 1157: In up to, over against, at, beside, among, behind, for

my glory,
כְּ֝בוֹדִ֗י (kə·ḇō·w·ḏî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3519: Weight, splendor, copiousness

and the One who lifts
וּמֵרִ֥ים (ū·mê·rîm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 7311: To be high actively, to rise, raise

my head.
רֹאשִֽׁי׃ (rō·šî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 7218: The head


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