Isaiah 13:7
What does Isaiah 13:7 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 13:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:
KJV
King James Version · 1611Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Therefore, all hands do fail, And every heart of man doth melt.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall melt,
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt,
Context
v.6Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
v.7This passage
v.8and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces shall be faces of flame.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babylon hath heard the tidings of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
- Isaiah 51:20
Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God.
- Exodus 15:15
Then were the chiefs of Edom dismayed; The mighty men of Moab, trembling taketh hold upon them: All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.
- Isaiah 37:27
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field of grain before it is grown up.
- Isaiah 19:1
The burden of Egypt. Behold, Jehovah rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh unto Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
- Isaiah 10:3
And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
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