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The Glory of Zion

Isaiah 35:3

In 11 translations

BSB
Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!Cited in Hebrews 12:12
KJV
¶ Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
WEB
Strengthen the weak hands, and make the feeble knees firm.
ASV
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
LSV
Strengthen the feeble hands, || Indeed, strengthen the stumbling knees.
YLT
Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen.
DBY
Strengthen the weak hands and confirm the tottering knees.
DRC
Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak knees.
GNV
Strengthen the weake handes, and comfort the feeble knees.
JPS
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and make firm the tottering knees.
LXXE
Be strong, ye relaxed hands and palsied knees.

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Original-language editions

WLC
חַזְּק֖וּ יָדַ֣יִם רָפ֑וֹת וּבִרְכַּ֥יִם כֹּשְׁל֖וֹת אַמֵּֽצוּ׃
LXX-Br
Ἰσχύσατε χεῖρες ἀνειμέναι, καὶ γόνατα παραλελυμένα.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Hebrews 12:12Therefore strengthen your limp hands and weak knees.
  • Luke 22:32But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
  • Job 4:3–4Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands. Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.
  • Isaiah 57:14–16And it will be said, “Build it up, build it up, prepare the way, take every obstacle out of the way of My people.” For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in…
  • Job 16:5But I would encourage you with my mouth, and the consolation of my lips would bring relief.
  • Luke 22:43Then an angel from heaven appeared to Him and strengthened Him.
  • Acts 18:23After Paul had spent some time in Antioch, he traveled from place to place throughout the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
  • Judges 7:11and listen to what they are saying. Then your hands will be strengthened to attack the camp.” So he went with Purah his servant to the outposts where armed men were guarding the camp.
  • Isaiah 52:1–2Awake, awake, clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and unclean will no longer enter you. Shake off your dust! Rise up and sit on your…
  • Isaiah 40:1–2“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God. “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD…

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