Weary

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”

…how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of God.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

And Gideon went to the men of Succoth and said, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your possession, that we should give bread to your weary men?’”

I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will flee; I will strike down only the king

…but Eleazar stood his ground and struck the Philistines until his hand grew weary and stuck to his sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. Then the troops returned to him, but only to plunder the dead.

There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.

But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

You sent abundant rain, O God; You refreshed Your weary inheritance.

I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.

In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.

Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house, lest he grow weary and hate you.

Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land.

These are the words of Agur son of Jakeh—the burden that this man declared to Ithiel: “I am weary, O God, and worn out.

I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.

…to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.

Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.

But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.

But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel.

Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.

The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.

…a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All who seek her need not weary themselves; in mating season they will find her.

You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion.

If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

…for I will refresh the weary soul and replenish all who are weak.”

Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.

We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.

Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?

Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

But as for you, brothers, do not grow weary in well-doing.

Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

Without growing weary, you have persevered and endured many things for the sake of My name.