When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.

Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up.

So then, banish anxiety from your heart and cast off the troubles of your body, for youth and vigor are meaningless.

He then said to me: “Son of man, I am about to cut off the food supply in Jerusalem. The people will eat rationed food in anxiety and drink rationed water in despair,

Say to the people of the land: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says about those living in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel: They will eat their food in anxiety and drink their water in despair, for their land will be stripped of everything in it because of the violence of all who live there.

Therefore I am all the more eager to send him, so that when you see him again you may be glad and I may have less anxiety.

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.