⁶ Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.

²¹ Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.

⁹ 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.

¹⁰ 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.

³⁵ And I will take you into the waste land of the peoples, and there I will take up the cause with you face to face.

³³ By my life, says the Lord, truly, with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with burning wrath let loose, I will be King over you:

⁸ Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.

⁴ My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.

³ When my cry came to your ears you gave me an answer, and made me great with strength in my soul.

³³ There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us.

³⁴ Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me:

¹⁹ If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

⁴ He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?