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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Contemporary English Version
Ezekiel 7:17
Your hands will tremble, and your knees will go limp.
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Christian Standard Bible®
All their hands will become weak,and all their knees will run with urine.
All their hands will become weak,and all their knees will run with urine.
Hebrew Names Version
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
King James Version
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
English Standard Version
All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water.
All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water.
New American Standard Bible
'All hands will hang limp, and all knees will drip with water.
'All hands will hang limp, and all knees will drip with water.
New Century Version
All hands will hang weakly with fear, and all knees will become weak as water.
All hands will hang weakly with fear, and all knees will become weak as water.
Amplified Bible
'All hands will hang limp and all knees will be as weak as water.
'All hands will hang limp and all knees will be as weak as water.
World English Bible
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
Geneva Bible (1587)
All handes shalbe weake, and all knees shall fall away as water.
All handes shalbe weake, and all knees shall fall away as water.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'All hands will hang limp and all knees will become like water.
'All hands will hang limp and all knees will become like water.
Legacy Standard Bible
All hands will hang limp, and all knees will become like water.
All hands will hang limp, and all knees will become like water.
Berean Standard Bible
Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water.
Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water.
Complete Jewish Bible
All hands will droop, all knees turn to water.
All hands will droop, all knees turn to water.
Darby Translation
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall melt into water.
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall melt into water.
Easy-to-Read Version
They will be too tired and sad to raise their arms. Their legs will be like water.
They will be too tired and sad to raise their arms. Their legs will be like water.
George Lamsa Translation
All hands shall be feeble and all knees shall be weak.
All hands shall be feeble and all knees shall be weak.
Good News Translation
Everyone's hands will be weak, and their knees will shake.
Everyone's hands will be weak, and their knees will shake.
Lexham English Bible
All of the hands will hang limp, and all of the knees will be wet with urine.
All of the hands will hang limp, and all of the knees will be wet with urine.
Literal Translation
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall go as water.
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall go as water.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
All hondes shalbe letten downe, and all knees shalbe weake as the water:
All hondes shalbe letten downe, and all knees shalbe weake as the water:
American Standard Version
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
Bible in Basic English
All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water.
All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
All hands shall be slack, and all knees shall drip with water.
All hands shall be slack, and all knees shall drip with water.
King James Version (1611)
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shalbe weake as water.
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shalbe weake as water.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
All handes shalbe let downe, and all knees shalbe weake as the water.
All handes shalbe let downe, and all knees shalbe weake as the water.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All hands shall be completely weakened, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture.
All hands shall be completely weakened, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture.
English Revised Version
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Alle hondis schulen be aclumsid, and alle knees schulen flowe with watris.
Alle hondis schulen be aclumsid, and alle knees schulen flowe with watris.
Update Bible Version
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
Webster's Bible Translation
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak [as] water.
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak [as] water.
New English Translation
All of their hands will hang limp; their knees will be wet with urine.
All of their hands will hang limp; their knees will be wet with urine.
New King James Version
Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be as weak as water.
Every hand will be feeble, And every knee will be as weak as water.
New Living Translation
Their hands will hang limp, their knees will be weak as water.
Their hands will hang limp, their knees will be weak as water.
New Life Bible
All hands will hang without strength, and all knees will be as weak as water.
All hands will hang without strength, and all knees will be as weak as water.
New Revised Standard
All hands shall grow feeble, all knees turn to water.
All hands shall grow feeble, all knees turn to water.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All hands shall be unnerved; and All knees shall be weak as water,
All hands shall be unnerved; and All knees shall be weak as water,
Douay-Rheims Bible
All hands shall be made feeble, and all knees shall run with water.
All hands shall be made feeble, and all knees shall run with water.
Revised Standard Version
All hands are feeble, and all knees weak as water.
All hands are feeble, and all knees weak as water.
Young's Literal Translation
All the hands are feeble, and all knees go -- waters.
All the hands are feeble, and all knees go -- waters.
THE MESSAGE
"‘Every hand hangs limp, every knee turns to rubber. They dress in rough burlap— sorry scarecrows, Shifty and shamefaced, with their heads shaved bald.
"‘Every hand hangs limp, every knee turns to rubber. They dress in rough burlap— sorry scarecrows, Shifty and shamefaced, with their heads shaved bald.
Contextual Overview
16 Anyone who survives will escape into the hills, like doves who leave the valleys to find safety. All of you will moan because of your sins. 17 Your hands will tremble, and your knees will go limp. 18 You will put on sackcloth to show your sorrow, but terror will overpower you. Shame will be written all over your faces, and you will shave your heads in despair. 19 Your silver and gold will be thrown into the streets like garbage, because those are the two things that led you into sin, and now they cannot save you from my anger. They are not even worth enough to buy food. 20 You took great pride in using your beautiful jewelry to make disgusting idols of foreign gods. So I will make your jewelry worthless. 21 Wicked foreigners will rob and disgrace you. 22 They will break into my temple and leave it unfit as a place to worship me, but I will look away and let it happen.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
hands: Ezekiel 21:7, Isaiah 13:7, Isaiah 13:8, Jeremiah 6:24, Hebrews 12:12
be weak as water: Heb. go into water
Reciprocal: Lamentations 5:16 - woe Daniel 5:6 - and his knees
Cross-References
Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will send rain that will last for forty days and nights, and I will destroy all other living creatures I have made.
Seven days from now I will send rain that will last for forty days and nights, and I will destroy all other living creatures I have made.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
All hands shall be feeble,.... No strength in them, to lay hold on weapons of war to defend themselves, or fight the enemy; no heart nor courage in them, to go forth and meet him; and even afraid to lift up their voice in mourning, lest they should be heard, and pursued, and taken:
and all knees shall be weak [as] water; tremble and beat one against another, for fear of the enemy; or,
"shall flow with water,''
as the Targum; either with sweat or urine, which are sometimes both caused by fear.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ezekiel 7:17. All knees shall be weak as water. — Calmet understands this curiously: La frayeur dont on sera saisi, fera qu'on ne pourra retenir son urine. D'autres l'expliquent d'une autre souillure plus honteuse. I believe him to be nearly about right. St. Jerome is exactly the same: Pavoris magnitudine, urina polluet genua, nec valebit profluentes aquas vesica prohibere. This and other malretentions are often the natural effect of extreme fear or terror.
