Weakness and renewed-strength imagery uses fainting, weariness, failing flesh, strengthened hands, or power made perfect in weakness to picture human frailty and divine help.
Weakness and renewed-strength imagery uses fainting, weariness, failing flesh, strengthened hands, or power made perfect in weakness to picture human frailty and divine help.
A frailty-and-supply motif in which weakness, weariness, fainting, failing flesh, strengthened hands, renewed vigor, or power-in-weakness signifies human limitation, dependence, endurance, divine enabling, humility, or grace-sustained service.
These examples show how Weakness, Fainting, Weariness, and Renewed-Strength Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
as thy days, so shall thy strength be
Strength is promised in proportion to appointed need.
until they had no more power to weep
Exhaustion and grief are pictured as spent strength.
the joy of the LORD is your strength
Divine joy becomes the people's enabling strength.
the LORD is the strength of my life
The LORD is confessed as life-sustaining strength.
my flesh and my heart faileth
Failing flesh becomes the contrast to God as enduring strength.
power to the faint... renew their strength
The LORD supplies strength to the faint and weary.
there remained no strength in me... be strong
Daniel's weakness is answered by strengthening from the heavenly messenger.
the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak
Weak flesh names disciples' vulnerability in temptation.
my strength is made perfect in weakness
Paul learns that Christ's power rests on weakness.
out of weakness were made strong
Faith is described as weakness transformed into strength.
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