2 Chronicles 15:5-7

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵ In those times there was no peace to him who went out or to him who came in, for great disturbances afflicted all the inhabitants of the lands. ⁶ They were broken in pieces, nation against nation and city against city, for God troubled them with every sort of distress. ⁷ But you, take courage! Do not let you hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”