Hebrews 12:12

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

Therefore, strengthen your feeble arms and weak knees!

Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble,

So take a new grip with your tired hands and stand firm on your shaky legs.

So don't sit around on your hands! No more dragging your feet!

For this cause let the hands which are hanging down be lifted up, and let the feeble knees be made strong,

Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,

Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,

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

¹ tn Or “straighten.”

² sn A quotation from Isa 35:3. Strengthen your listless hands and your weak knees refers to the readers’ need for renewed resolve and fresh strength in their struggles (cf. Heb 10:36-39; 12:1-3).