²⁴ Be strong, and let your heart take courage, All you who hope in Yahweh.

¹⁴ Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

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

¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, so that which is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

¹² Again, Isaiah says, "There will be the root of Jesse, He who arises to rule over the Gentiles; On him will the Gentiles hope."

¹³ Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

²¹ who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

¹⁰ Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

¹¹ Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

¹¹ strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy;

³¹ The Lord said, "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,

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."}."

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

⁴ Tell those who are of a fearful heart, Be strong, don't be afraid: behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [with] the recompense of God; he will come and save you.

⁵ Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

³ In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

¹¹ Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.