Ezekiel 7:17
What does Ezekiel 7:17 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 7:17 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
KJV
King James Version · 1611All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862All the hands are feeble, and all knees go--waters.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752All hands shall be made feeble, and all knees shall run with water.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall melt into water.
Context
v.16But those of them that escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.
v.17This passage
v.18They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 13:7
Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:
- Ezekiel 22:14
Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I, Jehovah, have spoken it, and will do it.
- Jeremiah 6:24
We have heard the report thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
- Ezekiel 21:7
And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt say, Because of the tidings, for it cometh; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord Jehovah.
- Hebrews 12:12
Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;
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