17. How can someone like me, your servant, talk to you, my lord? My strength is gone, and I can hardly breathe.”
18. Then the one who looked like a man touched me again, and I felt my strength returning.
19. “Don’t be afraid,” he said, “for you are very precious to God. Peace! Be encouraged! Be strong!”As he spoke these words to me, I suddenly felt stronger and said to him, “Please speak to me, my lord, for you have strengthened me.”