And one of the people answered and said, Your father solemnly adjured the people, saying, Cursed is the man who shall eat bread today. And the people were very faint,

and Jonathan knew it, and said, My father has destroyed the land: see how my eyes have received sight [now] that I have tasted a little of this honey.

And on that day he struck some of the Philistines in Michmash; and the people were very weary.

And the people turned to the spoil; and the people took flocks, and herds, and calves, and killed them on the ground, and the people ate with the blood.

And he pursued them with four hundred men; and two hundred men remained behind, who tarried on the other side of the brook Besor.

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

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

Therefore we do not despair, but even if our outward man is being destroyed, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.

And while we do good, let us not lose heart, for in due season we shall reap if we do not become weary.

So therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every impediment, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you be weary and discouraged in your souls.