LXX Concordance for δυνήσομαι

“Your servant has indeed found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by saving my life. But I can't run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

“Hurry up! Run to it, for I cannot do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city is Zoar.[fn]

“I can't carry all these people by myself. They are too much for me.

“‘Look, a people has come out of Egypt, and they cover the surface of the land. Now come and put a curse on them for me. I may be able to fight against them and drive them away.' ”

But Balaam responded to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go against the command of the LORD my God to do anything small or great.

Balak asked Balaam, “Did I not send you an urgent summons? Why didn't you come to me? Am I really not able to reward you? ”

“If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go against the LORD's command, to do anything good or bad of my own will? I will say whatever the LORD says.

“I said to you at that time: I can't bear the responsibility for you on my own.

“But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes by myself?

“If you say to yourself, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I drive them out? '

saying, “I am now 120 years old; I can no longer act as your leader.[fn] The LORD has told me, ‘You will not cross the Jordan.'

When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have devastated me! You have brought great misery on me.[fn] I have given my word to the LORD and cannot take it back.”

The redeemer replied, “I can't redeem it myself, or I will ruin my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption, because I can't redeem it.”

“But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I'll go to him, but he will never return to me.”

So he said to Ben-hadad's messengers, “Say to my lord the king, ‘Everything you demanded of your servant the first time, I will do, but this thing I cannot do.' ” So the messengers left and took word back to him.

So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing important work and cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you? ”

“For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives? ”

“House of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay? ” ​— ​this is the LORD's declaration. “Just like clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

My transgressions have been formed into a yoke,[fn][fn]

fastened together by his hand;

they have been placed on my neck,

and the Lord has broken my strength.

He has handed me over

to those I cannot withstand.

I led them with human cords,

with ropes of love.

To them I was like one

who eases the yoke from their jaws;

I bent down to give them food.