Isaiah 13:7
All of your people will be very afraid [DOU], with the result that they will be unable even to lift their arms.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 10:3When I punish you by sending people from distant lands to cause you to experience disasters, ◄to whom will you run to get help?/there will be no one who can help you.► [RHQ] Your valuable possessions will certainly not be safe [RHQ] anywhere.
Isaiah 37:27The people in those cities have no power, and as a result they are dismayed and discouraged. They are as frail as [MET] grass and plants in the fields, as frail as grass that grows on the roofs of houses and is scorched by the hot east wind.
Jeremiah 50:43The King of Babylon says, “ I have heard reports about the enemy approaching; so I am very frightened, with the result that I am weak. I am very fearful, and anguished/worried, like [SIM] a woman who is about to give birth to a baby.”
Ezekiel 21:7And when they ask you, ‘Why are you groaning?’ tell them, ‘Because of the news that they soon will hear. Everyone will be very fearful [IDM], and their knees will become as weak as [SIM] water. A great disaster will soon occur. That is what Yahweh the Lord is promising.’”
Nahum 1:6There is no one [RHQ] who can resist him when he becomes extremely angry; there is no one [RHQ] who can survive when his anger is very hot. When he is very angry, it is as though his anger is like [SIM] a blazing fire, and it is as though mountains are shattered into pieces.
Nahum 2:11After that happens, people will say, “What happened to [RHQ] that great city of Nineveh? It was like [MET] a den full of young lions, where the male and female lions lived and fed the young ones.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 13:7-19
The Doom of Babylon. ( b. c. 739.) 6 Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: 8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. 9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy… Read the whole commentary →