Quotes About Resilience

Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.

Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.

They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.

I can count all my bones; they stare and gloat over me.

When the wicked came upon me to devour my flesh, my enemies and foes stumbled and fell.

Though an army encamps around me, my heart will not fear; though a war breaks out against me, I will keep my trust.

In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”

For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

Blessed be the LORD, for He has shown me His loving devotion in a city under siege.

Be strong and courageous, all you who hope in the LORD.

But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.

Like godless jesters at a feast, they gnashed their teeth at me.

Let them not say in their hearts, “Aha, just what we wanted!” Let them not say, “We have swallowed him up!”

In the time of evil they will not be ashamed, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied.

Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand.

For I said, “Let them not gloat over me—those who taunt me when my foot slips.”

For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me.

Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.

I was speechless and still; I remained silent, even from speaking good, and my sorrow was stirred.

My enemies say with malice: “When will he die and be forgotten?”

You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.

You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth is transformed and the mountains are toppled into the depths of the seas,