Comfort, yes, comfort My people, says [your] God.

Speak, you priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away; for she has received of the Lord's hand double [for] her sins.

Awake, awake, Zion; put on your strength, O Zion; and put on your glory, O Jerusalem the holy city; for the uncircumcised and unclean shall pass through you no more.

Shake off the dust and arise; sit down, O Jerusalem; put off the band of your neck, captive daughter of Zion.

And they shall say, Clear the ways before him, and take up the stumbling blocks out of the way of My people.

I will not take vengeance on you forever, neither will I be always angry with you; for My Spirit shall go forth from Me, and I have created all breath.

And you shall hear what they shall say, and afterwards your hands shall be strong, and you shall go down into the camp. And he went down with Purah his servant to the extremity of the [companies of] fifty, which were in the camp.

For seeing you have instructed many, and have strengthened the hands of the weak one,

and have supported the failing with words, and have imparted courage to feeble knees.

[ 16:6] And would there were strength in my mouth, and I would not spare the movement of my lips.

But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers."

Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him.

After having spent some time there, he went out, going through in order the Galatian region and the Phrygian [region], strengthening all the disciples.

Therefore strengthen the hands which are weakened, and the feeble knees,