For thou will make them turn their back. Thou will make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.

If a man does not repent, he will whet his sword. He has bent his bow, and made it ready.

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

My heart overflows with a good matter. I speak the things which I have made concerning the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.

For thou, LORD, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in loving kindness to all those who call upon thee.

I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. While I suffer thy terrors I am confounded.

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

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

For thou have girded me with strength to the battle. Thou have subdued under me those who rose up against me.

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.