And Gideon came to the Jordan, and went over, himself and the three hundred with him, hungry, yet still pursuing.

I am poured out like water, and all My bones are loosened; My heart in the midst of My belly has become like melting wax.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and My tongue is glued to My throat; and You have brought Me down to the dust of death.

After this, Jesus, seeing that all things already had been fulfilled, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He said, "I thirst!"

in everything being oppressed, yet not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;

persecuted, but not abandoned; cast down, but not destroyed;

Arise, O Lord; deliver me, my God; for You have struck all who were my enemies without cause; You have broken the teeth of sinners.

Deliverance is the Lord's, and Your blessing is upon Your people.

For who is God but the Lord? And who is a God except our God?

who strengthens my feet as hare's feet, and sets me upon high places.

And You have made me secure in my salvation; and Your right hand has helped me, and Your correction has upheld me to the end; yea, Your correction itself shall instruct me.

I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them; and I will not turn back until they are consumed.

For You have girded me with strength for war; You have beaten down under me all that rose up against me.

And the sun rose upon him, when he passed Peniel; and he limped upon his thigh.

And lest I exalt myself above measure by the excellence of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, an angel of Satan, that it might beat me, lest I exalt myself above measure.

Concerning this I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

It shall come to pass then, that when the Egyptians shall see you, that they shall say, This is his wife, and they shall kill me, but they shall keep you alive.

Say, therefore, I am his sister, that it may be well with me on account of you, and my soul shall live because of you.

And Abraham said, Why I said, Surely there is not the worship of God in this place, and they will slay me because of my wife.

And David said in his heart, Now shall I be one day delivered [for death] into the hands of Saul; and there is nothing better for me unless I should escape into the land of the Philistines, and Saul should cease from seeking me through every coast of Israel. So I shall escape out of his hand.

For we do not desire you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of life.

Yes, we have had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead,

And what more should I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, both Barak and Samson and Jephthah, both David and Samuel and the prophets:

[This translation omits this verse.]

Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear, and the uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them! Shall I not go and kill him, and remove this day [this] reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised one, who has defied the army of the living God?

Tell it not in Gath, and tell it not as glad tidings in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.