Psalm 140:7
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New International Version (©2011)
Sovereign LORD, my strong deliverer, you shield my head in the day of battle.

New Living Translation (©2007)
O Sovereign LORD, the strong one who rescued me, you protected me on the day of battle.

English Standard Version (©2001)
O LORD, my Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You have covered my head in the day of battle.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Lord GOD, my strong Savior, You shield my head on the day of battle.

International Standard Version (©2012)
LORD, my Lord, my strong deliverer, you have protected my head in the time of battle.

NET Bible (©2006)
O sovereign LORD, my strong deliverer, you shield my head in the day of battle.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“Lord Jehovah, my mighty Savior! The shelter of my head in the day of war!”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
O LORD Almighty, the strong one who saves me, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

American King James Version
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

American Standard Version
O Jehovah the Lord, the strength of my salvation, Thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

Douay-Rheims Bible
O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: thou hast overshadowed my head in the day of battle.

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

English Revised Version
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

Webster's Bible Translation
O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

World English Bible
Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

Young's Literal Translation
O Jehovah, my Lord, strength of my salvation, Thou hast covered my head in the day of armour.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

140:1-7 The more danger appears, the more earnest we should be in prayer to God. All are safe whom the Lord protects. If he be for us, who can be against us? We should especially watch and pray, that the Lord would hold up our goings in his ways, that our footsteps slip not. God is as able to keep his people from secret fraud as from open force; and the experience we have had of his power and care, in dangers of one kind, may encourage us to depend upon him in other dangers.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 7. - O God the Lord. In the Hebrew, "Jehovah Adonai" - a comparatively rare address. The strength of my salvation. The solid strength upon which I ground all my hopes of salvation (comp. Psalm 89:26). Thou hast covered my head in the day of battle. In past combats thou hast protected me, as with a shield (Psalm 18:2; Psalm 33:20), wherefore I put the greater trust in thee for the future. The "head" is mentioned as one of the chief vital parts.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation,.... Temporal and spiritual, which he was able to effect; the mighty God and mighty Saviour: and this encouraged David to believe he should have deliverance; and this secured, confirmed, and established it to him; and to which he was the more induced by what experience he had had of the divine goodness to him, as follows:

thou hast covered my head in the day of battle; with the helmet of salvation, as Kimchi, Aben Ezra, and Arama observe; which, in a spiritual sense, is to a believer the hope of salvation, Ephesians 6:17, 1 Thessalonians 5:8; a defensive weapon to him; and protects him while he is engaging with his spiritual enemies in this his state of warfare, sin, Satan, and the world. Perhaps David may have respect to the divine protection of him, when he fought with Goliath. Salvation was Christ's helmet, when he engaged with all his and our enemies; even with all the powers of darkness, and obtained deliverance for us, Isaiah 59:16.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

7. day of battle—literally, "of armor," that is, when using it.

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Deliver Me, O Lord, from the Evil Man
…6I said to the LORD, You are my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD. 7O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle. 8Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah. …

Psalm 28:8 The LORD is the strength of his people, a fortress of salvation for his anointed one.
Psalm 118:14 The LORD is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation.
Psalm 144:10 to the One who gives victory to kings, who delivers his servant David. From the deadly sword