Quotes About Vulnerability

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.

The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.

Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

“No,” he told them. “You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”

Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.

He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horseís heels so that its rider tumbles backward.

They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies.

When he found her in the field, the betrothed woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.

how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of God.

Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me the source of your great strength and how you can be tied up and subdued.”

Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”

So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.

While the men were hidden in her room, she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he snapped the bowstrings like a strand of yarn seared by a flame. So the source of his strength remained unknown.

Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me! Now please tell me how you can be tied up.”

So Delilah took new ropes, tied him up with them, and called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But while the men were hidden in her room, he snapped the ropes off his arms like they were threads.

Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and lied to me all along! Tell me how you can be tied up.” He told her, “If you weave the seven braids of my head into the web of a loom and tighten it with a pin, I will become as weak as any other man.”

“How can you say, ëI love you,í” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”

Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,

Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my motherís womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”

When Delilah realized that he had revealed to her all that was in his heart, she sent this message to the lords of the Philistines: “Come up once more, for he has revealed to me all that is in his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came to her, bringing the money in their hands.

And having lulled him to sleep on her lap, she called a man to shave off the seven braids of his head. In this way she began to subdue him, and his strength left him.