Hebrews 12:12
Good News Translation
Lift up your tired hands, then, and strengthen your trembling knees!

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,

Contemporary English Version
Now stand up straight! Stop your knees from shaking

New American Bible
So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore, lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wherefore, lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees:

Hebrews 12:3,5 For think diligently upon him that endured such opposition from sinners against himself that you be not wearied, fainting in your minds. . . .

Job 4:3,4 Behold thou hast taught many, and thou hast strengthened the weary hands: . . .

Isaiah 35:3 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak knees.

Ezekiel 7:17 All hands shall be made feeble, and all knees shall run with water.

Ezekiel 21:7 And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou shalt say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and water shall run down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord God.

Daniel 5:6 Then was the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him: and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.

Nahum 2:10 She is destroyed, and rent, and torn: the heart melteth, and the knees fail, and all the loins lose their strength: and the faces of them all are as the blackness of a kettle.

1 Thessalonians 5:14 And we beseech you, brethren, rebuke the unquiet: comfort the feeble minded: support the weak: be patient towards all men.

Context
God Disciplines His Sons
11Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring with it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield to them that are exercised by it the most peaceable fruit of justice. 12Wherefore, lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees: 13And make straight steps with your feet: that no one, halting, may go out of the way; but rather be healed.…
Cross References
Psalm 109:24
My knees are weakened through fasting: and my flesh is changed for oil.

Isaiah 35:3
Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the weak knees.

Ezekiel 7:17
All hands shall be made feeble, and all knees shall run with water.

Zephaniah 3:16
In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: Fear not: to Sion: Let not thy hands be weakened.

Hebrews 12:11
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