Quotes About Vulnerability

They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!

Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water.

On the day of your birth your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing. You were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths.

I made you thrive like a plant of the field. You grew up and matured and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, but you were naked and bare.

And in all your abominations and acts of prostitution, you did not remember the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your own blood.

Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and tear down your lofty shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.

and they played in Egypt, prostituting themselves from their youth. Their breasts were fondled there, and their virgin bosoms caressed.

They will strip off your clothes and take your fine jewelry.

They will treat you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your indecency and promiscuity

He will slaughter the villages of your mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp to your walls, and raise his shields against you.

Your oarsmen have brought you onto the high seas, but the east wind will shatter you in the heart of the sea.

Will you still say, ëI am a god,í in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.

They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild beasts.

You will say, ëI will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will come against a tranquil people who dwell securely, all of them living without walls or bars or gates—

his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.

So I was left alone, gazing at this great vision. No strength remained in me; my face grew deathly pale, and I was powerless.

Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.

Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.

It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.

Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.

The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet of foot will not escape, and the horseman will not save his life.

Even the bravest of mighty men will flee naked on that day,” declares the LORD.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “An enemy will surround the land; he will pull down your strongholds and plunder your citadels.”

He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.