Sustain

Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.

The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

• Wells

Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation. Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.

The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

• Saints
• Power

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.

I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.

• Daughter-in-law
• Symbolical
• Seven

And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.

For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.