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the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
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English Standard Version
Ezekiel 7:17
All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water.
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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.
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.
Contemporary English Version
Your hands will tremble, and your knees will go limp.
Your hands will tremble, and your knees will go limp.
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 And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each one over his iniquity. 17 All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water. 18 They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. 19 They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord . They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity. 20 His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them. 21 And I will give it into the hands of foreigners for prey, and to the wicked of the earth for spoil, and they shall profane it. 22 I will turn my face from them, and they shall profane my treasured place. Robbers shall enter and profane it.
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
For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground."
For in seven days I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and every living thing that I have made I will blot out from the face of the ground."
Genesis 7:12
And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
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.
