93 Bible Verses About Strength in Weakness

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:

O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

And that bringeth me forth from mine enemies: thou also hast lifted me up on high above them that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.

And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smote the host: for the host was secure.

There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;

All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.

From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

And Ishbi–benob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

The Lord preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.

And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.

Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.

And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them.

Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.

He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them.

And Samson called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.

So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.

For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.

But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.

And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him.

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.

These four were born to the giant in Gath, and fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;

Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.

And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.

A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time.

And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath–lehi.

And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.

Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.

I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place.

Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.

He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?

He shall judge the poor of the people, he shall save the children of the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor.

But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the Lord wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.

Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

And the king said, Whosoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.

And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.

Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:

As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

And the Lord said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.

He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

Thou hast also turned the edge of his sword, and hast not made him to stand in the battle.

The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.

Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them.

The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the Lord shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.

My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi–ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.

And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the Lord shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.

The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.