100 Bible Verses About Vulnerability

And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the Lord.

And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord.

And the Lord was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken.

And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.

But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.

And they departed from Kibroth–hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.

But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the Lord hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and the Lord struck him, and he died.

For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.

The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the Lord lighteneth both their eyes.

For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.

And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.

And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab–shakeh.

And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the Lord said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe privily.

And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.

And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord God?

Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,

And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Beth–lehem–judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.

And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

I will call on the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.

My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.

And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.

Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.

When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

In all the signs and the wonders, which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,

For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous.

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David waxed faint.

And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live?

There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;

And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:

Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.

He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.

But, O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:

Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.

So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.

All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

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?

Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.

He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.

Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

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

For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.

Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord.

Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: