³ Behold, thou hast instructed many, And thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

³ Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

¹² Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;

⁶ Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

²⁹ Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.

⁴³ And there appeared unto him an angel from heaven, strengthening him.

³² but I made supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not; and do thou, when once thou hast turned again, establish thy brethren.

²² Because with lies ye have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive:

⁴ The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.

²¹ The wise in heart shall be called prudent; And the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.

⁷ The lips of the wise disperse knowledge; But the heart of the foolish `doeth' not so.

²¹ The lips of the righteous feed many; But the foolish die for lack of understanding.

⁵ `But' I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage `your grief'.

²² and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for Jehovah had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

²⁸ But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.

¹⁹ For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.