A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased.
Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.
Sorrow! how are the keepers of your flock sleeping, O king of Assyria! your strong men are at rest; your people are wandering on the mountains, and there is no one to get them together.
Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have made yours by your great power and by your strong hand.
Then I gave them an account of how the hand of my God was on me, helping me; and of the king's words which he had said to me. And they said, Let us get to work on the building. So they made their hands strong for the good work.
And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they make themselves strong? will they make offerings? will they get the work done in a day? will they make the stones which have been burned come again out of the dust?
For they were hoping to put fear in us, saying, Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.
Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.
And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.
And see what the land is like; and if the people living in it are strong or feeble, small or great in number;
But the people living in the land are strong, and the towns are walled and very great; further, we saw the children of Anak there.
So the makers of wise sayings say, Come to Heshbon, building up the town of Sihon and making it strong:
Come now, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this people, for they are greater than I: and then I may be strong enough to overcome them and send them out of the land: for it is clear that good comes to him who has your blessing, but he on whom you put your curse is cursed.
And looking on the Kenites he went on with his story and said, Strong is your living-place, and your secret place is safe in the rock.
He is to keep himself from wine and strong drink, and take no mixed wine or strong drink or any drink made from grapes, or any grapes, green or dry.
For I had great joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been made strong again through you, brother.
In the measure of my strong hope and belief that in nothing will I be put to shame, but that without fear, as at all times, so now will Christ have glory in my body, by life or by death.
Only let your behaviour do credit to the good news of Christ, so that if I come and see you or if I am away from you, I may have news of you that you are strong in one spirit, working together with one soul for the faith of the good news;
So my brothers, well loved and very dear to me, my joy and crown, be strong in the Lord, my loved ones.
The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction.
The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.
A woman who is full of grace is honoured, but a woman hating righteousness is a seat of shame: those hating work will undergo loss, but the strong keep their wealth.
For him in whose heart is the fear of the Lord there is strong hope: and his children will have a safe place.
The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the upright man running into it is safe.
The property of a man of wealth is his strong town, and it is as a high wall in the thoughts of his heart.
The decision of chance puts an end to argument, parting the strong.
A brother wounded is like a strong town, and violent acts are like a locked tower.
Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.
A wise man goes up into the town of the strong ones, and overcomes its strength in which they put their faith.
For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.
And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.
The building of a house is by wisdom, and by reason it is made strong:
A wise man is strong; and a man of knowledge makes strength greater.
Take away evil-doers from before the king, and the seat of his power will be made strong in righteousness.
There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.
The ants are a people not strong, but they put by a store of food in the summer;
She puts a band of strength round her, and makes her arms strong.
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?
Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:
Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.
When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed:
The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.
Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:
He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;
Who will take me into the strong town? who will be my guide into Edom?
His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.
Sharp arrows of the strong, and burning fire.
He overcame great nations, and put strong kings to death;
With a strong hand and an outstretched arm: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
He has made strong the iron bands of your doors; he has sent blessings on your children inside your walls.
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