Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.

If your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.

You gave me life and favor, and your intervention watched over my spirit.

You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food.

So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.