19 Then he said: “Do not be afraid,+ O very desirable man.*+ May you have peace.+ Be strong, yes, be strong.”+ And as soon as he spoke with me I exerted my strength and finally said: “Let my lord speak,+ because you have strengthened me.”+

4 “‘But now be strong, O Ze·rubʹba·bel,’ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘and be strong,+ O Joshua the son of Je·hozʹa·dak the high priest.’

“‘And be strong, all YOU people of the land,’* is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘and work.’+

“‘For I am with YOU people,’+ is the utterance of Jehovah of armies.

10 Finally, go on acquiring power+ in [the] Lord and in the mightiness+ of his strength.