Isaiah Chapter 13 verse 7 Holy Bible
Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:
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For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;
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Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt,
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Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
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Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:
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Therefore, all hands do fail, And every heart of man doth melt.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - Therefore shall all hands be faint (comp. Jeremiah 1:43; Ezekiel 7:17; Zephaniah 3:16). There shall be a general inaction and apathy. Recently discovered accounts of the capture of Babylon by Cyrus show a great want of activity and vigor on the part of the defenders. Every man's heart shall melt (comp. Deuteronomy 20:8; Joshua 2:11; Joshua 5:1, etc.). The general inaction will spring from a general despondency. This statement agrees much better with the recently discovered documents than does the statement of Herodotus, that, safe within their walls, the Babylonians despised their assailants, and regarded themselves as perfectly secure.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) Shall all hands be faint.--Better, be slack, hanging down in the helpless despondency of the terror which the next clause paints (Hebrews 12:12).(7) They shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth.--The image of powerless agony occurs both in earlier and later prophets (Hosea 13:3; Micah 5:9; Jeremiah 6:24, et al.). Perhaps the most striking parallelism is found in Psalm 48:6, probably, like the other psalms of the sons of Korah, contemporary with Isaiah. . . .
