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 which hang down, and the feeble knees;

⁶ Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

²⁹ Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

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

³² But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.

²² Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:

⁴ 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.

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 fools die for want of wisdom.

⁵ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

²² And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and 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 know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.