Isaiah 13:7

Literal Standard Version

Therefore, all hands fail, || And every heart of man melts.

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;

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

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

⁶Howl, for the Day of YHWH [is] near, || It comes as destruction from the Mighty. ⁷Therefore, all hands fail, || And every heart of man melts.⁸And they have been troubled, || Pains and pangs take them, || They are pained as a travailing woman, || A man marvels at his friend, || The appearance of flames—their faces! ⁹Behold, the Day of YHWH comes, || Fierce, with wrath, and heat of anger, || To make the land become a desolation, || Indeed, He destroys its sinning ones from it. ¹⁰For the stars of the heavens, and their constellations, || Do not cause their light to shine, || The sun has been darkened in its going out, || And the moon does not cause its light to come forth. ¹¹"And I have appointed evil on the world, || And on the wicked their iniquity, || And have caused the excellence of the proud to cease, || And I make the excellence of the terrible low. ¹²I make man more rare than fine gold, || And a common man than pure gold of Ophir. ¹³Therefore I cause the heavens to tremble, || And the earth shakes from its place, || In the wrath of YHWH of Hosts, || And in a day of the heat of His anger. ¹⁴And it has been, as a roe driven away, || And as a flock that has no gatherer, || Each to his people—they turn, || And each to his land—they flee. ¹⁵Everyone who is found is thrust through, || And everyone who is added falls by 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 is from Sidon, [in] your coming toward Gerar, to Gaza; [in] your coming toward Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, to Lasha.

Genesis 12:6
And Abram passes over into the land, to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh; and the Canaanite [is] then in the land.

Genesis 13:14
And YHWH said to Abram, after Lot's being parted from him, "Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you [are], northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward;

Genesis 13:15
for the whole of the land which you are seeing, I give it to you and to your Seed for all time.

Genesis 13:18
And Abram moves [his] tent, and comes, and dwells among the oaks of Mamre, which [are] in Hebron, and builds there an altar to YHWH.

Genesis 21:25
And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech's servants have violently taken away,

Genesis 26:20
and shepherds of Gerar strive with shepherds of Isaac, saying, "The water [is] ours"; and he calls the name of the well "Strife," because they have striven habitually with him;

Genesis 34:30
And Jacob says to Simeon and to Levi, "You have troubled me, by causing me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanite, and among the Perizzite: and I [am] few in number, and they have been gathered against me, and have struck me, and I have been destroyed, I and my house."

Exodus 2:17
and the shepherds come and drive them away, and Moses arises, and saves them, and waters their flock.

Nehemiah 5:9
And I say, "The thing that you are doing [is] not good; do you not 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).