7 And YOU, be courageous+ and do not let YOUR hands drop down,+ because there exists a reward for YOUR activity.”+

4 At that the people of the land were continually weakening+ the hands of the people of Judah and disheartening them from building,+

3 Strengthen the weak* hands, YOU people, and make the knees that are wobbling firm.+

4 And the princes began to say to the king: “Let this man,* please, be put to death,+ for that is how he is weakening the hands of the men of war who are left remaining in this city and the hands of all the people, by speaking to them according to these words.+ For this man is one seeking not for the peace of this people but for calamity.”