'Strength' in the Bible

For you, Lord, will send a blessing on the upright man; your grace will be round him, and you will be his strength.

O let the evil of the evil-doer come to an end, but give strength to the upright: for men's minds and hearts are tested by the God of righteousness.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

So he is oppressed and beaten down;the helpless fall because of his strength.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,} I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.

May he send you help from the holy place, and give you strength from Zion;

Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.

My strength drains away like water; all my bones are dislocated; my heart is like wax; it melts away inside me.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

He restores my strength. He leads me down the right paths for the sake of his reputation.

{A Psalm of David.} The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong and let your heart show strength, and wait for Yahweh.

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

{A Psalm of David.} Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength.

The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

O Jehovah, in Thy good pleasure, Thou hast caused strength to remain for my mountain,' Thou hast hidden Thy face -- I have been troubled.

Incline Your ear to me, rescue me quickly;Be to me a rock of strength,A stronghold to save me.

Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

Have mercy on me, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

Be strong and let your heart show strength, all [you] who wait for Yahweh.

For day and night Your hand was heavy on me;my strength was drainedas in the summer’s heat.Selah

There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.

With all my strength I will say, "O Lord, who can compare to you? You rescue the oppressed from those who try to overpower them; the oppressed and needy from those who try to rob them."

But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)

O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

For innumerable dangers surround me. My sins overtake me so I am unable to see; they outnumber the hairs of my head so my strength fails me.

The Lord will be his support on his bed of pain: by you will all his grief be turned to strength.

For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

It was not with their sword that they inherited the land, nor did their own arm deliver them. But it was by your power, your strength, and by the light of your face; because you were pleased with them.

By your power we will drive back our enemies; by your strength we will trample down our foes!

{To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth.} God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Like sheep, they are destined for the realm of the dead, with death as their shepherd. The upright will have dominion over them in the morning; their strength will be consumed in the afterlife, so that they have no home.

Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us?} Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.

Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.

Slay them not, lest my people forget, Shake them by Thy strength, And bring them down, O Lord our shield.

But I will sing of Your strengthand will joyfully proclaimYour faithful love in the morning.For You have been a stronghold for me,a refuge in my day of trouble.

Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.

By the power of your hand the earth is shaking and broken; make it strong again, for it is moved.

Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

I call to You from the ends of the earthwhen my heart is without strength.Lead me to a rock that is high above me,

For you have been a refuge for me, a tower of strength before the enemy.

In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

God has spoken once;I have heard this twice:strength belongs to God,

So I gaze on You in the sanctuaryto see Your strength and Your glory.

For you have been my strength, and in the shadow of your wings I will shout for joy.

Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:

Say to God, “How awe-inspiring are Your works!Your enemies will cringe before Youbecause of Your great strength.

He is ruling in power for ever; his eyes are watching the nations: may his haters have no strength against him. (Selah.)

You, O God, did freely send the rain, giving strength to the weariness of your heritage.

Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.

Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.

O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.

Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

I will say to the proud, "Don't brag," and to the wicked, "Don't vaunt your strength.

Don't use your strength to fight heaven or speak from stubborn arrogance."

I will cut down the strength of the wicked, but the strength of the righteous will be lifted up. To the Director: With stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph. A song.

I said, "I will remember God while I groan; I will think about him while my strength leaves me." (Selah)

Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.

Thou hast redeemed with strength Thy people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

He causeth an east wind to journey in the heavens, And leadeth by His strength a south wind,

And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.

Let the cries of the prisoners reach you. With the strength of your power, release those condemned to death.

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.

{To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.} Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. (Selah)

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

Thou hast bruised Rahab, as one wounded. With the arm of Thy strength Thou hast scattered Thine enemies.

For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.

Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, "I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.

My hand will be his support; my arm will give him strength.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Who knows the strength of your anger, and your rage consistent with [the] fear due you?

Who says of the Lord, He is my safe place and my tower of strength: he is my God, in whom is my hope.

You've grown my strength like the horn of a wild ox; I was anointed with fresh oil.