Isaiah 13:7
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
Isaiah 13:7 in other translations
| BSB | Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt. |
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| WEB | Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt. |
| ASV | Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt: |
| YLT | Therefore, all hands do fail, And every heart of man doth melt. |
| DARBY | Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt, |
| BBE | For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water; |
| Webster | Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: |
What does Isaiah 13:7 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 13:6-18
We have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, and haughty, and terrible, are quite dispirited when trouble comes. Their faces shall be scorched with the flame. All comfort and hope shall fail. The stars of heaven shall not give their light, the sun shall be darkened. Such expressions are often employed by the prophets, to describe the…
Isaiah 13:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 13:7
- Ezekiel 21:7
And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord God.
- Nahum 2:10
She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
- Nahum 1:6
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
- Ezekiel 7:17
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
- Isaiah 19:1
The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
- Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
- Isaiah 51:20
Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.
- Exodus 15:15
Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
- Isaiah 37:27
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
- Isaiah 10:3-4
And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory? Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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Context
- Isaiah 13:6
Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
- Isaiah 13:7
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
- Isaiah 13:8
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
Isaiah 13:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Por tanto, se enervarán todas la manos, y desleiráse todo corazón de hombre: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | C’est pourquoi toutes les mains deviendront lâches, et tout cœur d’homme se fondra, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Darum werden alle Hände erschlaffen, und jedes Menschenherz wird zerschmelzen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Propter hoc omnes manus dissolventur, et omne cor hominis contabescet, |