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Isaiah 35:3
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Strengthen the weak hands,steady the shaking knees!
Strengthen you the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
Strengthen the exhausted, and make the feeble strong.
Make the weak hands strong and the weak knees steady.
Encourage the exhausted, and make staggering knees firm.
Strengthen you the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Strengthen limp hands, and give courage to the knees of the stumbling.
Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!
Here is a message for all who are weak, trembling, and worried:
Strengthen your drooping arms, and steady your tottering knees.
Strengthen the weak hands and confirm the tottering knees.
Make the weak arms strong again. Strengthen the weak knees.
Strengthen the weak hands and make firm the feeble knees.
Give strength to hands that are tired and to knees that tremble with weakness.
Strengthen the weak hands and make the staggering knees firm.
Make the weak hands strong, and firm up the stumbling knees.
And therfore strength ye weake hodes, and conforte the feble knees.
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees.
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and make firm the tottering knees.
Strengthen yee the weake hands, and confirme the feeble knees.
And therfore strength the weake handes, and comfort the feeble knees.
Be strong, ye relaxed hands and palsied knees.
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Coumforte ye comelid hondis, and make ye strong feble knees.
Strengthen the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Strengthen the hands that have gone limp, steady the knees that shake!
Strengthen the weak hands, And make firm the feeble knees.
With this news, strengthen those who have tired hands, and encourage those who have weak knees.
Give strength to weak hands and to weak knees.
Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
Strengthen ye the weak hands, - The trembling knees, make ye firm:
Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak knees.
Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.
Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen.
Energize the limp hands, strengthen the rubbery knees. Tell fearful souls, "Courage! Take heart! God is here, right here, on his way to put things right And redress all wrongs. He's on his way! He'll save you!"
Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Isaiah 40:1, Isaiah 40:2, Isaiah 52:1, Isaiah 52:2, Isaiah 57:14-16, Judges 7:11, Job 4:3, Job 4:4, Job 16:5, Luke 22:32, Luke 22:43, Acts 18:23, Hebrews 12:12
Reciprocal: Exodus 17:12 - stayed up his hands Leviticus 11:22 - General Deuteronomy 20:3 - let not Joshua 1:6 - Be strong 1 Samuel 23:16 - strengthened 2 Samuel 4:1 - his hands 2 Samuel 9:7 - Fear not 2 Chronicles 15:7 - ye strong Ezra 4:4 - weakened Ezra 10:4 - be of good Nehemiah 2:17 - come Nehemiah 6:9 - Their hands Job 26:2 - helped Job 29:25 - one that Job 42:11 - they bemoaned Psalms 31:24 - Be of Proverbs 27:17 - so Ecclesiastes 4:10 - if Isaiah 40:9 - be not Isaiah 42:3 - bruised Ezekiel 21:7 - all hands Daniel 5:6 - and his knees Daniel 10:18 - he Hosea 2:14 - and speak Micah 4:6 - will I Zephaniah 3:16 - be said Zechariah 8:13 - fear not Acts 14:22 - Confirming Acts 15:32 - confirmed Acts 20:35 - how that Romans 14:1 - weak 1 Corinthians 8:9 - weak 2 Corinthians 12:9 - for Galatians 6:1 - restore Ephesians 6:10 - be 1 Thessalonians 5:14 - comfort Hebrews 12:13 - make Revelation 3:2 - strengthen
Cross-References
And lo, I am with thee, and wil keepe thee whithersoeuer thou goest, and will bring thee againe into this lande: for I will not forsake thee vntill I haue performed that, that I haue promised thee.
And the Lorde had said vnto Iaakob, Turne againe into the lande of thy fathers, and to thy kinred, and I wilbe with thee.
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the feare of Izhak had bene with me, surely thou haddest sent me away nowe emptie: but God behelde my tribulation, & the labour of mine hads, & rebuked thee yester night.
Then Iaakob was greatly afraid, and was sore troubled, and deuided the people that was with him, and the sheepe, and the beeues, and the camels into two companies.
Now when Iaakob was left him selfe alone, there wrestled a man with him vnto the breaking of the day.
Then God sayde to Iaakob, Arise, goe vp to Beth-el and dwell there, and make there an altar vnto God, that appeared vnto thee, when thou fleddest from Esau thy brother.
Then saide Iaakob vnto his houshold and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and clense your selues, and change your garments:
Then they went on their iourney, and the feare of God was vpon the cities that were roud about them: so that they did not followe after the sonnes of Iaakob.
Also I will giue the lande, which I gaue to Abraham and Izhak, vnto thee: and vnto thy seede after thee will I giue that land.
So God ascended from him in the place where he had talked with him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Strengthen ye the weak hands,.... These are the words of the prophet, as the Targum,
"the prophet said, strengthen the weak hands;''
or rather of God, by the prophet, to the converted Gentiles, to those who saw the glory of the Lord; particularly to the ministers of the Gospel, who have to do with weak and feeble persons, who can scarcely lift up their hands, or stand upon their legs, under a sense of sin, in a view of wrath, and immediate ruin and destruction, ready to sink and faint, because of their enemies, or through want of food; and their business is to comfort and strengthen them, by preaching the Gospel, and pointing out the promises of it to them:
and confirm the feeble knees; that so they may keep their ground against their enemies; shake off their fears and trembling; go on their way courageously and rejoicing; run, and not be weary; walk, and not faint: "hands" and "knees" are mentioned particularly, because a man's strength lies greatly in them; and his weakness is seen by the languor and trembling of them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Strengthen ye - That is, you who are the religious teachers and guides of the people. This is an address made by the prophet in view of what he had said and was about to say of the proraised blessings. The sense is, strengthen and sustain the feeble and the desponding by the promised blessings; by the assurances Isaiah 34:0 that all the enemies of God and his people will be destroyed; and that he will manifest himself as their Protector, and send upon them the promised blessings. Or it may be regarded as addressed to the officers and ministers of religion when these blessings should have come; and as being an exhortation to them to make use of the influences, the promises, and the consolations which would attend the coming of the Messiah, to strengthen the feeble, and confirm those who were faint-hearted.
The weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees - Strength resides mainly in the arms, and in the lower limbs, or the knees. If these are feeble, the whole frame is feeble. Fear relaxes the strength of the arms, and the firmness of the knees; and the expressions ‘weak hands,’ and ‘feeble knees,’ become synonymous with saying, of a timid, fearful, and desponding frame of mind. Such were to be strengthened by the assurance of the favor of God, and by the consolations which would flow from the reign of the Messiah. The Jews, who looked abroad upon the desolations of their country, were to be comforted by the hope of future blessings; those who lived in those future times were to be consoled by the assurances of the favor of God through the Messiah (compare the notes at Isaiah 40:1).
