³ Lo, thou hast instructed many, And feeble hands thou makest strong.

³ Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen.

¹² Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;

⁶ your word always in grace -- with salt being seasoned -- to know how it behoveth you to answer each one.

²⁹ Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

⁴³ And there appeared to him a messenger from heaven strengthening him;

³² and I besought for thee, that thy faith may not fail; and thou, when thou didst turn, strengthen thy brethren.'

²² Because of paining the heart of the righteous with falsehood, And I have not pained it, And strengthening the hands of the wicked, So as not to turn back from his evil way, To keep him alive,

⁴ The Lord Jehovah hath given to me The tongue of taught ones, To know to aid the weary `by' a word, He waketh morning by morning, He waketh for me an ear to hear as taught ones.

²¹ To the wise in heart is called, `Intelligent,' And sweetness of lips increaseth learning.

⁷ The lips of the wise scatter knowledge, And the heart of fools `is' not right.

²¹ The lips of the righteous delight many, And fools for lack of heart die.

⁵ I might harden you with my mouth, And the moving of my lips might be sparing.

²² and they make the feast of unleavened things seven days with joy, for Jehovah made them to rejoice, and turned round the heart of the king of Asshur unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

²⁸ and charge Jehoshua, and strengthen him, and harden him, for he doth pass over before this people, and he doth cause them to inherit the land which thou seest.

¹⁹ for I have known him, that he commandeth his children, and his house after him (and they have kept the way of Jehovah), to do righteousness and judgment, that Jehovah may bring on Abraham that which He hath spoken concerning him.'