Isaiah 13:7

Good News Translation

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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;

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

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

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

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:

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

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

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.

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

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,

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.

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

Contextual Overview

⁶ Howl in pain! The day of the Lord is near, the day when the Almighty brings destruction. ⁷ Everyone's hands will hang limp, and everyone's courage will fail. ⁸ They will all be terrified and overcome with pain, like the pain of a woman in labor. They will look at each other in fear, and their faces will burn with shame. ⁹ The day of the Lord is coming—that cruel day of his fierce anger and fury. The earth will be made a wilderness, and every sinner will be destroyed. ¹⁰ Every star and every constellation will stop shining, the sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will give no light. ¹¹ The Lord says, "I will bring disaster on the earth and punish all wicked people for their sins. I will humble everyone who is proud and punish everyone who is arrogant and cruel. ¹² Those who survive will be scarcer than gold. ¹³ I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place on that day when I, the Lord Almighty, show my anger. ¹⁴ "The foreigners living in Babylon will run away to their homelands, scattering like deer escaping from hunters, like sheep without a shepherd. ¹⁵ Anyone who is caught will be stabbed to death.

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
until the Canaanite borders reached from Sidon southward to Gerar near Gaza, and eastward to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim near Lasha.

Genesis 12:6
Abram traveled through the land until he came to the sacred tree of Moreh, the holy place at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were still living in the land.)

Genesis 13:14
After Lot had left, the Lord said to Abram, "From where you are, look carefully in all directions.

Genesis 13:15
I am going to give you and your descendants all the land that you see, and it will be yours forever.

Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his camp and settled near the sacred trees of Mamre at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord .

Genesis 21:25
Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well which the servants of Abimelech had seized.

Genesis 26:20
The shepherds of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's shepherds and said, "This water belongs to us." So Isaac named the well "Quarrel."

Genesis 34:30
Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have gotten me into trouble; now the Canaanites, the Perizzites, and everybody else in the land will hate me. I do not have many men; if they all band together against me and attack me, our whole family will be destroyed."

Exodus 2:17
But some shepherds drove Jethro's daughters away. Then Moses went to their rescue and watered their animals for them.

Nehemiah 5:9
Then I said, "What you are doing is wrong! You ought to obey God and do what's right. Then you would not give our enemies, the Gentiles, any reason to ridicule us.

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).