Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,
Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.
And when they say to you, ‘Why do you groan?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the news that it is coming. Every heart will melt, and all hands will be feeble; every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it is coming, and it will be fulfilled,’” declares the Lord God.
Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands. Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.
All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water.
Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins; all faces grow pale!
Then the king's color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.
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