9 En effet tous cherchaient à nous épouvanter, et se disaient: Leurs mains se fatigueront du travail, de sorte qu'il ne se fera point. Maintenant donc, ô Dieu! fortifie mes mains.
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They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed.” But I prayed, “Now strengthen my hands.”
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.