3Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
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Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands. …
But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.
And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people. …
And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)In these verses we have, I. The desert land blooming. In the foregoing chapter we had a populous and fruitful country turned into a horrid wilderness; here we have in lieu of that, a wilderness turned into a good land. When the land of Judah was freed from the Assyrian army, those parts of the country that had been made as a wilderness by the ravages and outrages they committed began to recover th…
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