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Strengthen the weak hands
    and make firm the feeble knees.(A)

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Strengthen the feeble hands,
    steady the knees(A) that give way;

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12 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees(A)

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12 Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees.(A)

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See, you have instructed many;
    you have strengthened the weak hands.(A)
Your words have supported those who were stumbling,
    and you have made firm the feeble knees.(B)

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Think how you have instructed many,(A)
    how you have strengthened feeble hands.(B)
Your words have supported those who stumbled;(C)
    you have strengthened faltering knees.(D)

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23 After spending some time there he departed and went from place to place through the region of Galatia[a] and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 18.23 Gk the Galatian region

23 After spending some time in Antioch, Paul set out from there and traveled from place to place throughout the region of Galatia(A) and Phrygia,(B) strengthening all the disciples.(C)

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32 but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail, and you, when once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”(A)

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32 But I have prayed for you,(A) Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”(B)

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A Promise of Help and Healing

14 It shall be said,
“Build up, build up, prepare the way;
    remove every obstruction from my people’s way.”(A)
15 For thus says the high and lofty one
    who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
I dwell in the high and holy place
    and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble
    and to revive the heart of the contrite.(B)
16 For I will not continually accuse,
    nor will I always be angry,
for then the spirits would grow faint before me,
    even the souls that I have made.(C)

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Comfort for the Contrite

14 And it will be said:

“Build up, build up, prepare the road!(A)
    Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.”(B)
15 For this is what the high and exalted(C) One says—
    he who lives forever,(D) whose name is holy:
“I live in a high(E) and holy place,
    but also with the one who is contrite(F) and lowly in spirit,(G)
to revive the spirit of the lowly
    and to revive the heart of the contrite.(H)
16 I will not accuse(I) them forever,
    nor will I always be angry,(J)
for then they would faint away because of me—
    the very people(K) I have created.

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God’s People Are Comforted

40 Comfort, O comfort my people,
    says your God.(A)
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
    and cry to her
that she has served her term,
    that her penalty is paid,
that she has received from the Lord’s hand
    double for all her sins.(B)

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Comfort for God’s People

40 Comfort, comfort(A) my people,
    says your God.
Speak tenderly(B) to Jerusalem,
    and proclaim to her
that her hard service(C) has been completed,(D)
    that her sin has been paid for,(E)
that she has received from the Lord’s hand
    double(F) for all her sins.

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I could encourage you with my mouth,
    and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

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But my mouth would encourage you;
    comfort(A) from my lips would bring you relief.(B)

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[[43 Then an angel from heaven appeared to him and gave him strength.(A)

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43 An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him.(A)

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Let Zion Rejoice

52 Awake; awake;
    put on your strength, O Zion!
Put on your beautiful garments,
    O Jerusalem, the holy city,
for the uncircumcised and the unclean
    shall enter you no more.(A)
Shake yourself from the dust; rise up,
    O captive[a] Jerusalem;
loose the bonds from your neck,
    O captive daughter Zion!(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 52.2 Cn: Heb rise up, sit

52 Awake, awake,(A) Zion,
    clothe yourself with strength!(B)
Put on your garments of splendor,(C)
    Jerusalem, the holy city.(D)
The uncircumcised(E) and defiled(F)
    will not enter you again.(G)
Shake off your dust;(H)
    rise up,(I) sit enthroned, Jerusalem.
Free yourself from the chains on your neck,(J)
    Daughter Zion,(K) now a captive.

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11 and you shall hear what they say, and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to attack the camp.” Then he went down with his servant Purah to the outposts of the armed men who were in the camp.(A)

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11 and listen to what they are saying. Afterward, you will be encouraged to attack the camp.” So he and Purah his servant went down to the outposts of the camp.

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