Quotes about Vulnerability
I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls.
- Song of Solomon 5:7
The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flames.
- Isaiah 1:31
Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.
- Isaiah 13:7
They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”
- Isaiah 14:10
He has uncovered the defenses of Judah. On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest.
- Isaiah 22:8
A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee, until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill.
- Isaiah 30:17
For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
- Isaiah 36:9
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.
- Isaiah 40:24
Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.
- Isaiah 47:14
The Daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be delivered into the hands of the people of the north.”
- Jeremiah 46:24
With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.
- Jeremiah 51:22
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
- Jeremiah 51:34