And it shall come to pass, if they shall say to you, Why do you groan? That you shall say, For the report; because it comes: and every heart shall break, and all hands shall become feeble, and all flesh and every spirit shall faint, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture: behold, it comes, says the Lord.

Therefore every hand shall become powerless, and every soul of man shall be dismayed.

The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in labor; and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame.

We have heard the report of them; our hands are weakened. Anguish has seized us, the pangs as of a woman in travail.

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