Lexicon :: Strong's G770 - astheneō

Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become weak and be like any other man.”

He told her, “If they tie me up with new ropes that have never been used, I will become weak and be like any other man.”

he told her the whole truth and said to her, “My hair has never been cut,[fn] because I am a Nazirite to God from birth. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become weak and be like any other man.”

The bows of the warriors are broken,

but the feeble are clothed with strength.

During the long war between the house of Saul and the house of David, David was growing stronger and the house of Saul was becoming weaker.

“Their inhabitants have become powerless,

dismayed, and ashamed.

They are plants of the field,

tender grass,

grass on the rooftops,

blasted by the east wind.[fn]

Then the men who were designated by name took charge of the captives and provided clothes for their naked ones from the plunder. They clothed them, gave them sandals, food and drink, dressed their wounds, and provided donkeys for all the feeble. The Israelites brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, among their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

Your words have steadied the one who was stumbling

and braced the knees that were buckling.

He cuts a shaft far from human habitation,

in places unknown to those who walk above ground.

Suspended far away from people,

the miners swing back and forth.

When my enemies retreat,

they stumble and perish before you.

You make a spacious place beneath me for my steps,

and my ankles do not give way.

Vindicate me, LORD,

because I have lived with integrity

and have trusted in the LORD without wavering.

When evildoers came against me to devour my flesh,

my foes and my enemies stumbled and fell.

Indeed, my life is consumed with grief

and my years with groaning;

my strength has failed

because of my iniquity,[fn]

and my bones waste away.

May they vanish like water that flows by;

may they aim their blunted arrows.[fn]

You, God, showered abundant rain;

you revived your inheritance when it languished.

My eyes are worn out from crying.

LORD, I cry out to you all day long;

I spread out my hands to you.

He broke their spirits[fn] with hard labor;

they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

My knees are weak from fasting,

and my body is emaciated.[fn]

Though a righteous person falls seven times,

he will get up,

but the wicked will stumble into ruin.

“Say to him: Calm down and be quiet. Don’t be afraid or cowardly because of these two smoldering sticks, the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram, and the son of Remaliah.

Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on,

and its cover too small to wrap up in.

You will be brought down;

you will speak from the ground,

and your words will come from low in the dust.

Your voice will be like that of a spirit from the ground;

your speech will whisper from the dust.

The reckless mind will gain knowledge,

and the stammering tongue will speak clearly and fluently.

The ironworker labors over the coals,

shapes the idol with hammers,

and works it with his strong arm.

Also he grows hungry and his strength fails;

he doesn’t drink water and is faint.

Therefore, this is what the LORD says:

I am going to place stumbling blocks before these people;

fathers and sons together will stumble over them;

friends and neighbors will also perish.

Yet my people have forgotten me.

They burn incense to worthless idols

that make them stumble in their ways

on the ancient roads,

and make them walk on new paths, not the highway.

The swift cannot flee,

and the warrior cannot escape!

In the north by the bank of the Euphrates River,

they stumble and fall.

The nations have heard of your dishonor,

and your cries fill the earth,

because warrior stumbles against warrior

and together both of them have fallen.

He continues to stumble.

Indeed, each falls over the other.

They say, “Get up! Let’s return to our people

and to our native land,

away from the oppressor’s sword.”

The arrogant will stumble and fall

with no one to pick him up.

I will set fire to his cities,

and it will consume everything around him.

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.

The LORD determined to destroy

the wall of Daughter Zion.

He stretched out a measuring line

and did not restrain himself from destroying.

He made the ramparts and walls grieve;

together they waste away.

Young men labor at millstones;

boys stumble under loads of wood.

“It sprouted and became a spreading vine, low in height with its branches turned toward him, yet its roots stayed under it. So it became a vine, produced branches, and sent out shoots.

“I have appointed a sword for slaughter[fn]

at all their gates,

so that their hearts may melt

and many may stumble.

Yes! It is ready to flash like lightning;

it is drawn[fn] for slaughter.

“You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.

“In those times many will rise up against the king of the South. Violent ones among your own people will assert themselves to fulfill a vision, but they will fail.

“He will turn his attention back to the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble, fall, and be no more.

“Those who have insight among the people will give understanding to many, yet they will fall by the sword and flame, and they will be captured and plundered for a time.

“He will also invade the beautiful land, and many will fall. But these will escape from his power: Edom, Moab, and the prominent people[fn] of the Ammonites.

You will stumble by day;

the prophet will also stumble with you by night.

And I will destroy your mother.

Israel’s arrogance testifies against them.[fn]

Both Israel and Ephraim stumble

because of their iniquity;

even Judah will stumble with them.

A sword will whirl through his cities;

it will destroy and devour the bars of his gates,[fn]

because of their schemes.

Israel, return to the LORD your God,

for you have stumbled in your iniquity.

Let whoever is wise understand these things,

and whoever is insightful recognize them.

For the ways of the LORD are right,

and the righteous walk in them,

but the rebellious stumble in them.

He gives orders to his officers;

they stumble as they advance.

They race to its wall;

the protective shield is set in place.