Be strong and let your heart show strength,
all you who wait for Yahweh.
If you faint on the day of adversity,
little is your strength.
Have you not known,
or have you not heard?
Yahweh is the God of eternity,
the creator of the ends of the earth!
He is not faint, and he does not grow weary!
There is no searching his understanding.
He gives power to the weary,
and he increases power for the powerless.
Even young people will be faint and grow weary,
and the young will stumble, exhausted.
But those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength.
They shall go up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not grow weary;
they shall walk and not be faint.
And he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, because the power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore rather I will boast most gladly in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may reside in me.
Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.
I am able to do all things by the one who strengthens me.