Isaiah 13:7

Updated Bible Version

Therefore all hands shall be feeble, and every heart of common man shall melt:

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore all hands will fall limp,And every man's heart will melt.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Therefore all hands will fall limp, And every man's heart will melt.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Therefore shall all handes be letten downe, and all mens heartes shall melt away.

Darby Translation
Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt,

New King James Version
Therefore all hands will be limp, Every man's heart will melt,

Literal Translation
On account of this all hands shall droop, and every heart of man shall melt;

Easy-to-Read Version
People will lose their courage. Fear will make them weak.

World English Bible
Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:

King James Version (1611)
Therefore shall all hands bee faint, and euery mans heart shall melt.

King James Version
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then shall all hondes be letten downe, and all mens hertes shal melt awaie,

Amplified Bible
Therefore all hands will fall limp, And every man's heart will melt.

American Standard Version
Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:

Bible in Basic English
For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;

Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:

New English Translation
For this reason all hands hang limp, every human heart loses its courage.

Contemporary English Version
All people will be terrified. Hands will grow limp; courage will melt away.

Complete Jewish Bible
This is why every arm will hang limp and everyone's courage melt away.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore shal all hands be weakened, and all mens hearts shall melt,

George Lamsa Translation
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every mans heart shall melt;

Hebrew Names Version
Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Therefore shall all hands be slack, and every heart of man shall melt.

New Living Translation
Every arm is paralyzed with fear. Every heart melts,

New Life Bible
So all hands will become weak, and every man's heart will melt.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Therefore every hand shall become powerless, and every soul of man shall be dismayed.

English Revised Version
Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:

Berean Standard Bible
Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man's heart will melt.

New Revised Standard
Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every human heart will melt,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For this cause - All hands, shall hang down, - and Every mortal heart, melt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall melt,

Lexham English Bible
Therefore all hands will grow slack, and every human heart will melt,

English Standard Version
Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every human heart will melt.

New American Standard Bible
Therefore all hands will fall limp, And every human heart will melt.

New Century Version
People will be weak with fear, and their courage will melt away.

Good News Translation
Everyone's hands will hang limp, and everyone's courage will fail.

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore everyone's hands will become weak, and every man's heart will melt.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For this thing alle hondis schulen be vnmyyti, and eche herte of man schal faile,

Revised Standard Version
Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every man's heart will melt,

Young's Literal Translation
Therefore, all hands do fail, And every heart of man doth melt.

Contextual Overview

⁶ Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty it shall come. ⁷ Therefore all hands shall be feeble, and every heart of common man shall melt: ⁸ and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold [of them]; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces [shall be] faces of flame. ⁹ Look, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it. ¹⁰ For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine. ¹¹ And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. ¹² I will make common man more rare than fine gold, even man more than the pure gold of Ophir. ¹³ Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. ¹⁴ And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathers, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land. ¹⁵ Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shall all: Isaiah 10:3, Isaiah 10:4, Isaiah 37:27, Isaiah 51:20, Jeremiah 50:43, Ezekiel 7:17, Ezekiel 21:7, Nahum 1:6

be faint: or, fall down

every: Isaiah 19:1, Exodus 15:15, Nahum 2:10

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 1:28 - discouraged Joshua 2:11 - our hearts Joshua 7:5 - wherefore 1 Samuel 5:11 - a deadly 2 Samuel 4:1 - his hands 2 Samuel 17:10 - utterly melt Psalms 58:7 - General Psalms 107:26 - their soul Jeremiah 49:23 - fainthearted Jeremiah 51:8 - howl Jeremiah 51:30 - The mighty Lamentations 1:22 - my heart Daniel 5:6 - so that

Cross-References

Genesis 10:19
And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, to Lasha.

Genesis 12:6
And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

Genesis 13:14
And Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward:

Genesis 13:15
for all the land which you see, to you I will give it, and to your seed forever.

Genesis 13:18
And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built there an altar to Yahweh.

Genesis 21:25
And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's slaves had violently taken away.

Genesis 26:20
And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. And he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

Genesis 34:30
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

Exodus 2:17
And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

Nehemiah 5:9
Also I said, The thing that you do is not good: Shouldn't you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore shall all hands be faint,.... Or hang down; that is, the hands of all the Babylonians, the city being taken suddenly and at once, so that they should not be able to lift them up to lay hold on a weapon, and defend themselves:

and every man's heart shall melt; like wax before the fire; be dispirited, and lose all their valour and courage, have neither power nor heart to resist their enemies, and attempt to save themselves.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore shall all hands be faint - This is designed to denote the consternation and alarm of the people. They would be so terrified and alarmed that they would have no courage, no hope, and no power to make resistance. They would abandon their plans of defense, and give themselves up to despair (compare 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 Women in travail;’ Ezekiel 7:17; Zephaniah 3:16).

And every man’s heart shall melt - Or, shall faint, so that he shall have no courage or strength (compare Deuteronomy 20:8). The fact was, that the destruction of Babylon took place in the night. It came suddenly upon the city, while Belshazzar was at his impious feast; and the alarm was so unexpected and produced such consternation, that no defense was attempted (see Daniel 5:30; compare the notes at Isaiah 45:1).