Ver. 12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down These words may be considered as spoken to the Hebrews, with respect to themselves; accordingly, the Syriac version reads, "your hands", and "your knees"; who were sluggish, and inactive in prayer, in hearing the word, in attendance on ordinances, in holding fast their profession, and in the performance of those things which adorn it; they were weary and fatigued with weights and burdens of sins and afflictions; and were faint, fearful, and timorous, through distrust of the promised good, because of their persecutions, being in present distress, and in a view of approaching danger, with which they might be surprised, as well as affected with their present afflictions: and then the exhortation to "lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees", is to be active in every duty; to be courageous against every enemy: to bear patiently every burden; to take heart, and be of good cheer under every afflictive providence: or else they may be considered as an exhortation to them with respect to others, which seems to be most agreeable to ( Isaiah 35:3 ) from whence they are taken; and then what is signified in them is done by sympathizing with persons in distress; by speaking comfortably to them, and by bearing their burdens.
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Porque ellos nos disciplinaban por pocos días como les parecía, pero El nos disciplina para nuestro bien, para que participemos de su santidad.
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Al presente ninguna disciplina parece ser causa de gozo, sino de tristeza; sin embargo, a los que han sido ejercitados por medio de ella, les da después fruto apacible de justicia.
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Por tanto, fortaleced las manos débiles y las rodillas que flaquean,
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y haced sendas derechas para vuestros pies, para que la pierna coja no se descoyunte, sino que se sane.
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Buscad la paz con todos y la santidad, sin la cual nadie verá al Señor.