Your words have supported those who were stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.
When the ear heard, it commended me, and when the eye saw, it approved;
I chose their way, and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.
See, you have instructed many; you have strengthened the weak hands.
But now it has come to you, and you are impatient; it touches you, and you are dismayed.
The Lord upholds all who are falling, and raises up all who are bowed down.
Rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.
The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens— wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught.
Then the king's face turned pale, and his thoughts terrified him. His limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.
so now instead you should forgive and console him, so that he may not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
But God, who consoles the downcast, consoled us by the arrival of Titus,
And we urge you, beloved, to admonish the idlers, encourage the faint hearted, help the weak, be patient with all of them.
Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,