³ Behold, you have instructed many, You have strengthened the weak hands.

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

¹² Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

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

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

⁴³ An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.

³² but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn't fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers{The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}."

²² Because with lies you 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 Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

²¹ The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.

⁷ The lips of the wise spread knowledge; Not so with the heart of fools.

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. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

²² and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to 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 you shall 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 Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."