Up! now, O Lord God, come back to your resting-place, you and the ark of your strength: let your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints be glad in what is good.
And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O Lord, you are our God; let not man's power be greater than yours.
And said, O Lord, the God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? are you not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in your hands are power and strength so that no one is able to keep his place against you.
O our God, will you not be their judge? for our strength is not equal to this great army which is coming against us; and we are at a loss what to do: but our eyes are on you.
And under their orders was a trained army of three hundred and seven thousand, five hundred, of great strength in war, helping the king against any who came against him.
Then Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, came to him, but was a cause of trouble and not of strength to him.
For we are servants; but our God has not been turned away from us in our prison, but has had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength to put up again the house of our God and to make fair its waste places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.
And Judah said, The strength of the workmen is giving way, and there is much waste material; it is impossible for us to put up the wall.
And all his acts of power and his great strength and the full story of the high place which the king gave Mordecai, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Media and Persia?
There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.
He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.
You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.
Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?
Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh brass?
He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.
He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?
If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?
There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.
With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his.
With him are strength and wise designs; he who is guided into error, together with his guide, are in his hands;
I might give you strength with my mouth, and not keep back the comfort of my lips.
Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.
The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.
His strength is made feeble for need of food, and destruction is waiting for his falling footstep.
His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.
His buckets are full of milk, and there is no loss of strength in his bones.
How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!
His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent.
Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.
You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.
Then his flesh becomes young again, and he comes back to the days of his early strength;
Truly God is lifted up in strength; who is a ruler like him?
There is no searching out of the ruler of all: his strength and his judging are great; he is full of righteousness, doing no wrong.
Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
Will you put your faith in him, because his strength is great? will you give the fruit of your work into his care?
Do you give strength to the horse? is it by your hand that his neck is clothed with power?
In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.
Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.
His strength is in his body, and his force in the muscles of his stomach.
I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame.
Strength is in his neck, and fear goes dancing before him.
But your strength, O Lord, is round me, you are my glory and the lifter up of my head.
For you, Lord, will send a blessing on the upright man; your grace will be round him, and you will be his strength.
O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.
You have made clear your strength even out of the mouths of babies at the breast, because of those who are against you; so that you may put to shame the cruel and violent man.
<To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord, of David, who said the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord made him free from the hand of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul; and he said,> I will give you my love, O Lord, my strength.
For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who come out against me.
Let the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing in your eyes, O Lord, my strength and my salvation.
May he send you help from the holy place, and give you strength from Zion;
Now am I certain that the Lord gives salvation to his king; he will give him an answer from his holy heaven with the strength of salvation in his right hand.
<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> The king will be glad in your strength, O Lord; how great will be his delight in your salvation!
Be lifted up, O Lord, in your strength; so will we make songs in praise of your power.
Do not be far from me, O Lord: O my strength, come quickly to my help.
Who is the King of glory? The Lord of strength and power, the Lord strong in war.
<Of David.> The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?
The Lord is my strength and my breastplate, my heart had faith in him and I am helped; for this cause my heart is full of rapture, and I will give him praise in my song.
The Lord is their strength, and a strong place of salvation for his king.
<A Psalm. Of David.> Give to the Lord, you sons of the gods, give to the Lord glory and strength.
The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will give his people the blessing of peace.
Let your ear be turned to me; take me quickly out of danger; be my strong Rock, my place of strength where I may be safe.
Take me out of the net which they have put ready for me secretly; for you are my strength.
My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.
A king's salvation is not in the power of his army; a strong man does not get free by his great strength.
But the Lord is the saviour of the upright: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.
My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.
For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.
The Lord will be his support on his bed of pain: by you will all his grief be turned to strength.
You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
<To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah; put to Alamoth. A Song.> God is our harbour and our strength, a very present help in trouble.
See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.
<To the chief music-maker; on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David. When the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Is not David keeping himself secret among us?> Let your name be my salvation, O God; let my cause be judged by your strength.
O my strength, I will put my hope in you; because God is my strong tower.
But I will make songs of your power; yes, I will give cries of joy for your mercy in the morning; because you have been my strength and my high tower in the day of my trouble.
To you, O my strength, will I make my song: because God is my high tower, even the God of my mercy.
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;
In God is my salvation, and my glory; the Rock of my strength, and my safe place.
The God by whose strength the mountains are fixed; who is robed with power:
He is ruling in power for ever; his eyes are watching the nations: may his haters have no strength against him. (Selah.)
You, O God, did freely send the rain, giving strength to the weariness of your heritage.
O God, send out your strength; the strength, O God, with which you have done great things for us,
Make clear that strength is God's: he is lifted up over Israel, and his power is in the clouds.
O God, you are to be feared in your holy place: the God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God.
Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone.
Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.
The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken.
You are the God who does works of power: you have made your strength clear to the nations.
We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.
He gave to destruction all the first sons of Egypt; the first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham;
And he let his strength be taken prisoner, and gave his glory into the hands of his hater.
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, let your strength be awake from sleep, and come as our salvation.
<To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith. Of Asaph.> Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob.
Happy is the man whose strength is in you; in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
They go from strength to strength; every one of them comes before God in Zion.
The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.
O be turned to me and have mercy on me: give your strength to your servant, and your salvation to the son of her who is your servant.
I have been troubled and in fear of death from the time when I was young; your wrath is hard on me, and I have no strength.
For you are the glory of their strength; in your pleasure will our horn be lifted up.
My hand will be his support; my arm will give him strength.
The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.
Let the pleasure of the Lord our God be on us: O Lord, give strength to the work of our hands.
Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength: he is my God, in whom is my hope.
The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon.
The Lord is King; he is clothed with glory; the Lord is clothed with strength; power is the cord of his robe; the world is fixed, so that it may not be moved.
Give to the Lord, O you families of the peoples, give to the Lord glory and strength.
He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.
He makes your mouth full of good things, so that your strength is made new again like the eagle's.
Give praise to the Lord, you his angels, who are great in strength, doing his orders, and waiting for his voice.
And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.
Let your search be for the Lord and for his strength; let your hearts ever be turned to him.
He put to death the first child of every family in the land, the first-fruits of their strength.
Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is the strength of my head; Judah is my law-giver;
The Lord will send out the rod of your strength from Zion; be king over your haters.
The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.
My soul is wasted with sorrow; give me strength again in keeping with your word
Come back, O Lord, to your resting-place; you and the ark of your strength.
When my cry came to your ears you gave me an answer, and made me great with strength in my soul.
O Lord God, the strength of my salvation, you have been a cover over my head in the day of the fight.
Be quick in answering me, O Lord, for the strength of my spirit is gone: let me see your face, so that I may not be like those who go down into the underworld.
<A Psalm. Of David.> praise be to the God of my strength, teaching my hands the use of the sword, and my fingers the art of fighting:
He is my strength, and my Rock; my high tower, and my saviour; my keeper and my hope: he gives me authority over my people.
One generation after another will give praise to your great acts, and make clear the operation of your strength.
Their words will be of the glory of your kingdom, and their talk of your strength;
He has no delight in the strength of a horse; he takes no pleasure in the legs of a man.
Give him praise for his acts of power: give him praise in the measure of his great strength.
Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;
This will give strength to your flesh, and new life to your bones.
For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.
Wise design and good sense are mine; reason and strength are mine.
Where there are no oxen, their food-place is clean; but much increase comes through the strength of the ox.
The glory of young men is their strength, and the honour of old men is their grey hairs.
A wise man goes up into the town of the strong ones, and overcomes its strength in which they put their faith.
A wise man is strong; and a man of knowledge makes strength greater.
If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.
Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.
She puts a band of strength round her, and makes her arms strong.
Strength and self-respect are her clothing; she is facing the future with a smile.
Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength, but the poor man's wisdom is not respected, and his words are not given a hearing.
If the iron has no edge, and he does not make it sharp, then he has to put out more strength; but wisdom makes things go well.
Happy is the land whose ruler is of noble birth, and whose chiefs take food at the right time, for strength and not for feasting.
Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.
Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;
And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.
To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.
For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;
And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.
And it will be in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made small, and the strength of his body will become feeble.
For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;
And a spirit of wisdom to the judge, and strength to those who keep back the attackers at the door of the town.
To whom he said, This is the rest, give rest to him who is tired; and by this you may get new strength; but they would not give ear.
Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.
And the strength of pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.
For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.
O Lord, have mercy on us; for we have been waiting for your help: be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble.
You say you have a design and strength for war, but these are only words: now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority?
And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame: for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.
A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field.
Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.
He gives power to the feeble, increasing the strength of him who has no force.
Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength;
But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.
Come quietly before me, O sea-lands, and let the peoples get together their strength: let them come near; then let them say what they have to say: let us put forward our cause against one another.
Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.
For this reason he let loose on him the heat of his wrath, and his strength was like a flame; and it put fire round about him, but he did not see it; he was burned, but did not take it to heart.
The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.
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