the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Proverbs 31:17
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She girds herself with strengthAnd makes her arms strong.
She girds herself with strength And makes her arms strong.
She girdeth her loynes with strength, and fortifieth her armes.
She girdeth her loins with strength, and maketh strong her arms.
She girds herself with strength, And strengthens her arms.
She has girded her loins with strength, and has made her arms strong.
She works very hard. She is strong and able to do all her work.
She girds her loins with strength, And makes her arms strong.
She girdeth her loynes with strength, and strengtheneth her armes.
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
She gyrdeth hir loynes with strength, and courageth hir armes.
She equips herself with strength [spiritual, mental, and physical fitness for her God-given task] And makes her arms strong.
She girdeth her loins with strength, And maketh strong her arms.
She puts a band of strength round her, and makes her arms strong.
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
She begins her work vigorously, and she strengthens her arms.
and she always works hard.
ח She gathers her strength around her and throws herself into her work.
She girdeth her loynes with strength, and strengtheneth her armes.
She girds her loins with strength, and strengthens her arms.
She girds her loins with strength, And makes her arms strong.
She girdeth her loins with strength, and maketh strong her arms.
She is energetic and strong, a hard worker.
She makes herself ready with strength, and makes her arms strong.
She strongly girds her loins, and strengthens her arms for work.
She girdeth her loins with strength, and maketh strong her arms.
She girds herself with strength and shows that her arms are strong.
She girds herself with strength, and makes her arms strong.
She girdeth, with strength her loins, and putteth vigour into her arms:
She hath girded her loins with strength, and hath strengthened her arm.
She girds her waist in strength, and makes her arms strong.
She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong.
She surrounds her waist with strength And makes her arms strong.
She does her work with energy, and her arms are strong.
She is a hard worker, strong and industrious.
She draws on her strength and reveals that her arms are strong.
Sche girde hir leendis with strengthe, and made strong hir arm.
She girds her loins with strength and makes her arms strong.
She hath girded with might her loins, And doth strengthen her arms.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
girdeth: 1 Kings 18:46, 2 Kings 4:29, Job 38:3, Luke 12:35, Ephesians 6:10, Ephesians 6:14, 1 Peter 1:13
strengtheneth: Genesis 49:24, Isaiah 44:12, Hosea 7:15
Cross-References
And the slave took ten camels, of the camels of his master, having all good things of his master's in his hand. And he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode on the camels, and followed the man. And the slave took Rebekah, and went his way.
And David smote them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day: and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
She girdeth her loins with strength,.... Showing her readiness to every good work; and with what cheerfulness, spirit, and resolution, she set about it, and with what dispatch and expedition she performed it: the allusion is to the girding and tucking up of long garments, wore in the eastern countries, when any work was set about in earnest, which required dispatch; see Luke 17:8; the strength of creatures being in their loins, Job 40:16; the loins are sometimes put for strength, as in Plautus r; and the sense is much the same with what follows;
and strengtheneth her arms; does all she finds to do with all her might and main, as the church does; not in her own strength, but in the strength of Christ; to whom she seeks for it, and in whose strength she goes forth about her business; by whom the arms of her hands are made strong, even by the mighty God of Jacob; and because she thus applies to him for it, she is said to do it herself, Genesis 49:24; here she plays the man, and acts the manly part, 1 Corinthians 16:13.
r "Lumbos defractos velim", Stichus, Act. 2. Sc. 1. v. 37.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 31:17. She girdeth her loins with strength —
7. She takes care of her own health and strength, not only by means of useful labour, but by healthy exercise. She avoids what might enervate her body, or soften her mind-she is ever active, and girt ready for every necessary exercise. Her loins are firm, and her arms strong.