רָפָה

How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:

We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt.

Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.

The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.

And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.

All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.

In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.