You have given me your protecting shield, and your help has made me great.
I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Some time afterward, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: Do not fear, Abram! I am your shield; I will make your reward very great.
I will bless you and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore; your descendants will take possession of the gates of their enemies,
May the Lord increase your number, yours and your descendants.
Who trained my hands for war, my arms to string a bow of bronze.
Better one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere. Better the threshold of the house of my God than a home in the tents of the wicked.
In all circumstances, hold faith as a shield, to quench all [the] flaming arrows of the evil one.
And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Constant Prayer.