Quotes About Vulnerability

Then she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, “I will escape as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.

Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Lead me where I can feel the pillars supporting the temple, so I can lean against them.”

Look, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the manís concubine, and you can use them and do with them as you wish. But do not do such a vile thing to this man.”

So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked them.

Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom, so that I may eat it from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnonís bedroom.

Then we will attack David wherever we find him, and we will descend on him like dew on the ground. And of all the men with him, not even one will remain.

Now King David was old and well along in years, and though they covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.

So now I have just one request of you; do not deny me.” “State your request,” she told him.

Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.

“What have they seen in your palace?” Isaiah asked. “They have seen everything in my palace,” answered Hezekiah. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”

so the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, though you are not ill? This could only be sadness of the heart.” I was overwhelmed with fear

The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.

fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

Is my strength like that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze?

But now, please look at me. Would I lie to your face?

My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.

Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up quicker than grass.

His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spiderís web.

He leans on his web, but it gives way; he holds fast, but it does not endure.