Quotes About Strength

My soul boasts in the LORD; let the oppressed hear and rejoice.

The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.

He protects all his bones; not one of them will be broken.

Take up Your shield and buckler; arise and come to my aid.

Draw the spear and javelin against my pursuers; say to my soul: “I am your salvation.”

Awake and rise to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord!

Let not the foot of the proud come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.

For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.

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 Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.

My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.

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

He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

The LORD will protect and preserve him; He will bless him in the land and refuse to surrender him to the will of his foes.

The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.

But You, O LORD, be gracious to me and raise me up, that I may repay them.

By this I know that You delight in me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.

Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.

You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.

Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.

For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.