the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Hebrews 12:12
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Therefore, strengthen your tired hands and weakened knees,
Wherefore lift vp the handes which hang downe, and the feeble knees.
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,
Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble,
You have become weak, so make yourselves strong again.
Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble,
Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble,
Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.
Now stand up straight! Stop your knees from shaking
So, strengthen your drooping arms, and steady your tottering knees;
Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the failing knees;
You have become weak, so make yourselves strong again.
Therefore, be courageous and strong;
Lift up your tired hands, then, and strengthen your trembling knees!
Therefore strengthen your slackened hands and your weakened knees,
Because of this, "straighten the hands" hanging alongside, "and the enfeebled knees;"
So then, strengthen hands that are weak and knees that tremble.
Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;
For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong,
Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
Therefore, strengthen your tired arms and your weak knees,Job 1:4:3-4; Isaiah 35:3;">[xr]
Wherefore your relaxed hands and your trembling knees make strong;
Wherefore, strengthen ye your relaxed hands, and your tottering knees:
Strayghten vp therfore the handes which were let downe, and the weake knees:
Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;
Therefore, lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
Wherefore Lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees:
Therefore strengthen the drooping hands and paralysed knees,
For whiche thing reise ye slowe hondis,
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
Therefore, strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees ,
Genesis 25:29-34; 27:30-40">[xr] Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,
So take a new grip with your tired hands and strengthen your weak knees.
So lift up your hands that have been weak. Stand up on your weak legs.
Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,
Wherefore, the slackened hands and paralysed knees, restore ye,
Wherefore, lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees:
Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,
Stretch forthe therfore agayne the hondes which were let doune and the weake knees
Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;
Life vp therfore the handes which were let downe, and the weake knees,
Wherefore "strengthen your weak hands and your feeble knees.
So don't sit around on your hands! No more dragging your feet! Clear the path for long-distance runners so no one will trip and fall, so no one will step in a hole and sprain an ankle. Help each other out. And run for it!
So stack another dally on the horn and lift your chin up in order to strengthen those weak knees.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Hebrews 12:3, Hebrews 12:5, Job 4:3, Job 4:4, Isaiah 35:3, Ezekiel 7:17, Ezekiel 21:7, Daniel 5:6, Nahum 2:10, 1 Thessalonians 5:14
Reciprocal: Exodus 17:12 - stayed up his hands Leviticus 11:22 - General Deuteronomy 20:3 - let not Deuteronomy 22:4 - thou shalt surely 1 Samuel 17:32 - Let 1 Samuel 23:16 - strengthened Ezra 10:4 - be of good Nehemiah 6:9 - Their hands Job 35:15 - in great Job 42:11 - they bemoaned Psalms 31:24 - Be of Psalms 109:24 - knees Psalms 119:50 - This Jeremiah 31:8 - them the Ezekiel 34:4 - diseased Micah 4:6 - will I Zephaniah 3:16 - be said Matthew 12:20 - bruised Luke 3:5 - and the crooked Luke 22:32 - strengthen John 11:28 - and called John 14:1 - not John 21:15 - lambs Acts 18:23 - strengthening Acts 20:35 - how that 2 Corinthians 1:4 - that 2 Corinthians 2:7 - ye Colossians 3:16 - teaching 1 Thessalonians 4:18 - Wherefore Hebrews 13:22 - suffer James 5:19 - and one
Cross-References
Afterward remouing thence vnto a moutaine Eastward from Beth-el, he pitched his tent hauing Beth-el on the Westside, & Haai on the East: and there he built an altar vnto the Lord, and called on the Name of the Lord.
Then there came a famine in the land: therefore Abram went downe into Egypt to soiourne there: for there was a great famine in the lande.
Then Abraha answered, Because I thought thus, Surely the feare of God is not in this place, and they will slay me for my wiues sake.
And the men of the place asked him of his wife, and he sayd, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife, least, sayde he, the men of the place shoulde kill me, because of Rebekah: for she was beautifull to the eye.
And Dauid said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: is it not better for me that I saue my selfe in the lande of the Philistims, and that Saul may haue no hope of me to seeke me any more in all the coastes of Israel, and so escape out of his hand?
The feare of man bringeth a snare: but he that trusteth in the Lord, shalbe exalted.
And feare yee not them which kill the bodie, but are nor able to kill the soule: but rather feare him, which is able to destroy both soule and bodie in hell.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Ver. 12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down,.... These words may be considered as spoken to the Hebrews, with respect to themselves; accordingly, the Syriac version reads, "your hands", and "your knees"; who were sluggish, and inactive in prayer, in hearing the word, in attendance on ordinances, in holding fast their profession, and in the performance of those things which adorn it; they were weary and fatigued with weights and burdens of sins and afflictions; and were faint, fearful, and timorous, through distrust of the promised good, because of their persecutions, being in present distress, and in a view of approaching danger, with which they might be surprised, as well as affected with their present afflictions: and then the exhortation to "lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees", is to be active in every duty; to be courageous against every enemy: to bear patiently every burden; to take heart, and be of good cheer under every afflictive providence: or else they may be considered as an exhortation to them with respect to others, which seems to be most agreeable to
Isaiah 35:3 from whence they are taken; and then what is signified in them is done by sympathizing with persons in distress; by speaking comfortably to them, and by bearing their burdens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Wherefore - In view of the facts which have been now stated - that afflictions are sent from God, and are evidences of his paternal watchfulness.
Lift up the hands which hang down - As if from weariness and exhaustion. Renew your courage; make a new effort to bear them. The hands fall by the side when we are exhausted with toil, or worn down by disease; see the notes on Isaiah 35:3, from which place this exhortation is taken.
And the feeble knees - The knees also become enfeebled by long effort, and tremble as if their strength were gone. Courage and resolution may do much, however, to make them firm, and it is to this that the apostle exhorts those to whom he wrote. They were to make every effort to bear up under their trials. The hope of victory will do much to strengthen one almost exhausted in battle; the desire to reach home invigorates the frame of the weary traveler. So it is with the Christian. In persecution, and sickness, and bereavement, he may be ready to sink under his burdens. The hands fall, and the knees tremble, and the heart sinks within us. But confidence in God, and the hope of heaven, and the assurance that all this is for our good, will reinvigorate the enfeebled frame, and enable us to bear what we once supposed would crush us to the dust. A courageous mind braces a feeble body, and hope makes it fresh for new conflicts.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Hebrews 12:12. Wherefore lift up the hands — The apostle refers to Isaiah 35:3. The words are an address to persons almost worn out with sickness and fatigue, whose hands hang down, whose knees shake, and who are totally discouraged. These are exhorted to exert themselves, and take courage, with the assurance that they shall infallibly conquer if they persevere.
