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.

For I am ready to halt, And my pain is before me continually.

If one turn not, he will sharpen his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready,

For behold, the wicked bend the bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may in darkness shoot at the upright in heart.

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death; he makes ready his arrows against the persecutors.

For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against their face.

{To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction; a song of the Beloved.} My heart is welling forth with a good matter: I say what I have composed touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

They devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one's inward thought and heart is deep.

For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, and art of great loving-kindness unto all that call upon thee.

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

Let thy hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen thy precepts.

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.

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

Who is this King of glory? Jehovah strong and mighty, Jehovah mighty in battle.

He hath redeemed my soul in peace from the battle against me: for there were many about me.

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

The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.

Yea, thou hast turned back the edge of his sword, and hast not made him stand in the battle.

Jehovah, the Lord, is the strength of my salvation: thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

He trains my hands for battle,
So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

Draw also the spear and the battle-axe to meet those who pursue me;
Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”

A Psalm of David.
Blessed be the Lord, my rock,
Who trains my hands for war,
And my fingers for battle;