Isaiah 13:7

THE MESSAGE

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

⁶Wail! God 's Day of Judgment is near— an avalanche crashing down from the Strong God! Everyone paralyzed in the panic, hysterical and unstrung, Doubled up in pain like a woman giving birth to a baby. Horrified—everyone they see is like a face out of a nightmare. ⁹"Watch now. God 's Judgment Day comes. Cruel it is, a day of wrath and anger, A day to waste the earth and clean out all the sinners. The stars in the sky, the great parade of constellations, will be nothing but black holes. The sun will come up as a black disk, and the moon a blank nothing. I'll put a full stop to the evil on earth, terminate the dark acts of the wicked. I'll gag all braggarts and boasters—not a peep anymore from them— and trip strutting tyrants, leave them flat on their faces. Proud humanity will disappear from the earth. I'll make mortals rarer than hens' teeth. And yes, I'll even make the sky shake, and the earth quake to its roots Under the wrath of God -of-the-Angel-Armies, the Judgment Day of his raging anger. Like a hunted white-tailed deer, like lost sheep with no shepherd, People will huddle with a few of their own kind, run off to some makeshift shelter. But tough luck to stragglers—they'll be killed on the spot, throats cut, bellies ripped open, Babies smashed on the rocks while mothers and fathers watch, Houses looted, wives raped. ¹⁷"And now watch this: Against Babylon, I'm inciting the Medes, A ruthless bunch indifferent to bribes, the kind of brutality that no one can blunt. They massacre the young, wantonly kick and kill even babies. And Babylon, most glorious of all kingdoms, the pride and joy of Chaldeans, Will end up smoking and stinking like Sodom, and, yes, like Gomorrah, when God had finished with them. No one will live there anymore, generation after generation a ghost town. Not even Bedouins will pitch tents there. Shepherds will give it a wide berth. But strange and wild animals will like it just fine, filling the vacant houses with eerie night sounds. Skunks will make it their home, and unspeakable night hags will haunt it. Hyenas will curdle your blood with their laughing, and the howling of coyotes will give you the shivers. "Babylon is doomed. It won't be long now."

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 13:14
After Lot separated from him, God said to Abram, "Open your eyes, look around. Look north, south, east, and west. Everything you see, the whole land spread out before you, I will give to you and your children forever. I'll make your descendants like dust—counting your descendants will be as impossible as counting the dust of the Earth. So—on your feet, get moving! Walk through the country, its length and breadth; I'm giving it all to you."

Genesis 13:18
Abram moved his tent. He went and settled by the Oaks of Mamre in Hebron. There he built an altar to God .

Genesis 21:25
At the same time, Abraham confronted Abimelech over the matter of a well of water that Abimelech's servants had taken. Abimelech said, "I have no idea who did this; you never told me about it; this is the first I've heard of it."

Genesis 34:30
Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You've made my name stink to high heaven among the people here, these Canaanites and Perizzites. If they decided to gang up on us and attack, as few as we are we wouldn't stand a chance; they'd wipe me and my people right off the map."

Nehemiah 5:9
"What you're doing is wrong. Is there no fear of God left in you? Don't you care what the nations around here, our enemies, think of you?

Colossians 4:5
Use your heads as you live and work among outsiders. Don't miss a trick. Make the most of every opportunity. Be gracious in your speech. The goal is to bring out the best in others in a conversation, not put them down, not cut them out.

Titus 3:3
It wasn't so long ago that we ourselves were stupid and stubborn, dupes of sin, ordered every which way by our glands, going around with a chip on our shoulder, hated and hating back. But when God, our kind and loving Savior God, stepped in, he saved us from all that. It was all his doing; we had nothing to do with it. He gave us a good bath, and we came out of it new people, washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit. Our Savior Jesus poured out new life so generously. God's gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives. And there's more life to come—an eternity of life! You can count on this. I want you to put your foot down. Take a firm stand on these matters so that those who have put their trust in God will concentrate on the essentials that are good for everyone. Stay away from mindless, pointless quarreling over genealogies and fine print in the law code. That gets you nowhere. Warn a quarrelsome person once or twice, but then be done with him. It's obvious that such a person is out of line, rebellious against God. By persisting in divisiveness he cuts himself off. As soon as I send either Artemas or Tychicus to you, come immediately and meet me in Nicopolis. I've decided to spend the winter there. Give Zenas the lawyer and Apollos a hearty send-off. Take good care of them. Our people have to learn to be diligent in their work so that all necessities are met (especially among the needy) and they don't end up with nothing to show for their lives. All here want to be remembered to you. Say hello to our friends in the faith. Grace to all of you.

James 4:1
Where do you think all these appalling wars and quarrels come from? Do you think they just happen? Think again. They come about because you want your own way, and fight for it deep inside yourselves. You lust for what you don't have and are willing to kill to get it. You want what isn't yours and will risk violence to get your hands on it. You wouldn't think of just asking God for it, would you? And why not? Because you know you'd be asking for what you have no right to. You're spoiled children, each wanting your own way. You're cheating on God. If all you want is your own way, flirting with the world every chance you get, you end up enemies of God and his way. And do you suppose God doesn't care? The proverb has it that "he's a fiercely jealous lover." And what he gives in love is far better than anything else you'll find. It's common knowledge that "God goes against the willful proud; God gives grace to the willing humble." So let God work his will in you. Yell a loud no to the Devil and watch him scamper. Say a quiet yes to God and he'll be there in no time. Quit dabbling in sin. Purify your inner life. Quit playing the field. Hit bottom, and cry your eyes out. The fun and games are over. Get serious, really serious. Get down on your knees before the Master; it's the only way you'll get on your feet. Don't bad-mouth each other, friends. It's God's Word, his Message, his Royal Rule, that takes a beating in that kind of talk. You're supposed to be honoring the Message, not writing graffiti all over it. God is in charge of deciding human destiny. Who do you think you are to meddle in the destiny of others? And now I have a word for you who brashly announce, "Today—at the latest, tomorrow—we're off to such and such a city for the year. We're going to start a business and make a lot of money." You don't know the first thing about tomorrow. You're nothing but a wisp of fog, catching a brief bit of sun before disappearing. Instead, make it a habit to say, "If the Master wills it and we're still alive, we'll do this or that." As it is, you are full of your grandiose selves. All such vaunting self-importance is evil. In fact, if you know the right thing to do and don't do it, that, for you, is evil.

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).