Strengthen the hands that have gone limp, steady the knees that shake! ¹ 

Why did the knees welcome me, ¹  and why were there ²  two breasts ³  that I might nurse at them? ⁴ 

For this reason ¹  I kneel ²  before the Father, ³ 

All of their hands will hang limp; their knees will be wet with urine. ¹ 

Then ¹  a hand touched me and set me on my hands and knees. ² 

So Joseph moved them from Israel’s knees ¹  and bowed down with his face to the ground.

I am so starved my knees shake; ¹  I have turned into skin and bones. ² 

so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow – in heaven and on earth and under the earth –

Your words have supported ¹  those who stumbled, ²  and you have strengthened the knees that gave way. ³ 

Therefore, strengthen ¹  your listless hands and your weak knees, ² 

Then all the color drained from the king’s face ¹  and he became alarmed. ²  The joints of his hips gave way, ³  and his knees began knocking together.

Destruction, devastation, and desolation! ¹  Their hearts faint, ²  their knees tremble, ³  each stomach churns, ⁴  each face ⁵  turns ⁶  pale! ⁷ 

For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will give praise to God.” ¹ 

The Lord will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils – from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

So Ahab went on up to eat and drink, while Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel. He bent down toward the ground and put his face between his knees.

I still have left in Israel seven thousand followers who have not bowed their knees to Baal or kissed the images of him.” ¹ 

But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, ¹  for I am a sinful man!” ² 

Again and again ¹  they struck him on the head with a staff ²  and spit on him. Then they knelt down and paid homage to him.

But what was the divine response ¹  to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand people ²  who have not bent the knee to Baal.” ³ 

At the time of the evening offering I got up from my self-abasement, ¹  with my tunic and robe torn, and then dropped to my knees and spread my hands to the Lord my God.