¹⁷ All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water.

⁷ And when they say to you, Why are you making sounds of grief? then say, Because of the news, for it is coming: and every heart will become soft, and all hands will be feeble, and every spirit will be burning low, and all knees will be turned to water: see, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord.

²⁴ The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

¹² For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong,

⁷ For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;

⁸ Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.

¹⁴ Will your heart be high or your hands strong in the days when I take you in hand? I the Lord have said it and will do it.