I labour for peace; but when I speak unto them thereof, they make them ready to battle.

My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready; I will sing and give praise.

Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle; thou hast thrown them all down under me, that rose up against me. {TYNDALE: And thou compassedest me about with might to battle, and madest them that rose against me to stoop under me.}

Sound your battle cry against the wild beast of the reeds, and the nations that assemble like a herd of calves led by bulls! They humble themselves and offer gold and silver as tribute. God scatters the nations that like to do battle.

Who is the King of glory? LORD strong and mighty, LORD mighty in battle.

He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, for there were many by me.

There he broke the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.

The sons of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

Yea, thou turn back the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the battle.

O lord LORD, the strength of my salvation, thou have covered my head in the day of battle.

If anyone does not repent,
God will sharpen His sword;
He has strung His bow and made it ready.

For You, Lord, are kind and ready to forgive,
rich in faithful love to all who call on You.

For I am ready to fall;
My sorrow is continually before me.

My heart overflows with a good theme;
I address my psalm to the King.
My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

Surely His salvation is near to those who [reverently] fear Him [and obey Him with submissive wonder],
That glory [the manifest presence of God] may dwell in our land.

Because the man did not remember to show kindness,
But persecuted the suffering and needy man,
And the brokenhearted, to put them to death.

May your hand stand ready to assist me, for I have chosen your precepts.

And he will be like a tree firmly planted [and fed] by streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season;
Its leaf does not wither;
And in whatever he does, he prospers [and comes to maturity].

For look, the wicked are bending the bow;
They take aim with their arrow on the string
To shoot [by stealth] in darkness at the upright in heart.

Without guilt on my part they run and ready themselves. Awake to meet me and see.

and not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation [that] did not make ready its heart, whose spirit was not faithful [to] God.

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer your terrors, I am distracted.

Their mouths are softer than butter, and yet have they battle in their mind: their words are smoother than oil, and yet be they very swords.

Therefore shall you make them turn their back, when you shall make ready your arrows upon your strings toward their face.

{A song and Psalm of David} O God, my heart is ready to sing and to give praise. Awake, O my glory!

My shield, is held by God, who is ready to save the upright in heart:

But, Yahweh, unto times age-abiding, will sit, Ready for judgment, is his throne;

With the pure, thou didst show thyself pure, But, with the perverse, thou didst show thyself ready to contend.

Who have sharpened, like a sword, their tongue, Have made ready their arrow - a bitter word;

They devise injustices, saying,
“We are ready with a well-conceived plot”;
For the inward thought and the heart of a man are deep.

Yahweh is ready to uphold all who are falling, and to raise all who are laid prostrate.