'Feeble' in the Bible

“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord God,“Because your heart is lifted upAnd you have said and thought, ‘I am a god,I sit in the seat of the godsIn the heart of the seas’;Yet you are [only] a man [weak, feeble, made of earth] and not God,Though you [imagine yourself to be more than mortal and] think your mind is as [wise as] the mind of God—

This is what the Lord has said: The day when he goes down to the underworld, I will make the deep full of grief for him; I will keep back her streams and the great waters will be stopped: I will make Lebanon dark for him, and all the trees of the field will be feeble because of him.

And the fourth kingdom is strong as iron, because that iron is breaking small, and making feeble, all things, even as iron that is breaking all these, it beateth small and breaketh.

For how can such a [weakened] servant of my lord talk with such [a being] as my lord? For now there remains no strength in me, nor has any breath been left in me.”

The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.

Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.

And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:

In that day the fair virgins and the young men will be feeble from need of water.

And I will make her whose steps were uncertain a small band, and her who was feeble a strong nation: and the Lord will be their King in Mount Zion from now and for ever.

He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.

And you will be overcome with wine, you will become feeble; you will be looking for a safe place from those who are fighting against you.

For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.

Hearing it, my inner parts were moved, and my lips were shaking at the sound; my bones became feeble, and my steps were uncertain under me: I gave sounds of grief in the day of trouble, when his forces came up against the people in bands.

The Lord will let himself be seen by them: for he will make all the gods of the earth feeble; and men will go down before him in worship, everyone from his place, even all the sea-lands of the nations.

In that day it is said to Jerusalem, 'Fear not, O Zion, let not thy hands be feeble.

In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.

So that the people were full of wonder when they saw that those who had no voice were talking, the feeble were made strong, those whose bodies were broken had the power of walking, and the blind were able to see: and they gave glory to the God of Israel.

Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.

If I send them away to their homes hungry, they will faint [from exhaustion] on the road; because some of them have come a long way.”

Straight away the father of the child gave a cry, saying, I have faith; make my feeble faith stronger.

Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test; the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.

But if God so clothes the vegetation in the fields, that blooms to-day and to-morrow will be thrown into the oven, how much more certainly will He clothe you, you men of feeble faith!

if we are being put on trial today [to interrogate us] for a good deed done to [benefit] a disabled man, as to how this man has been restored to health,

In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.

And not being feeble in faith though his body seemed to him little better than dead (he being about a hundred years old) and Sarah was no longer able to have children:

I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.

For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh:

And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;

Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.

One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.

We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves.

Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men.

But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong;

We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.

But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble.

For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?

And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ.

To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation.

For this cause a number of you are feeble and ill, and a number are dead.

Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

It is planted in shame; it comes again in glory: feeble when it is planted, it comes again in power:

For his letters, they say, have weight and are strong; but in body he is feeble, and his way of talking has little force.

I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward (I am talking like a foolish person), I will do the same.

Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry?

If I have to take credit to myself, I will do so in the things in which I am feeble.

On account of such a one I will have glory: for myself I will take no glory, but only in my feeble body.

And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.

So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.

since you seek [forensic] proof that Christ is speaking in and through me. He is not weak or ineffective in dealing with you, but powerful within you.

For he was feeble in that he was put to death on the cross, but he is living by the power of God. And we are feeble in him, but we will be living with him through the power of God in relation to you.

For we are glad when we are feeble and you are strong: and this is our prayer, even that you may be made complete.

But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?

But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time;

For this reason it is my prayer that you may not become feeble because of my troubles for you, which are your glory.

And our desire is that you will keep control over those whose lives are not well ordered, giving comfort to the feeble-hearted, supporting those with little strength, and putting up with much from all.

For we have not a high priest who is not able to be touched by the feelings of our feeble flesh; but we have one who has been tested in all points as we ourselves are tested, but without sin.

He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble;

And being feeble, he has to make sin-offerings for himself as well as for the people.

So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.

The law makes high priests of men who are feeble; but the word of the oath, which was made after the law, gives that position to a Son, in whom all good is for ever complete.

Put out the power of fire, got safely away from the edge of the sword, were made strong when they had been feeble, became full of power in war, and put to flight the armies of the nations.

Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose.

Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

And make straight roads for your feet, so that the feeble may not be turned out of the way, but may be made strong.

Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;