Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

New American Standard Bible

All hands will hang limp and all knees will become like water.

King James Version

All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

Holman Bible

All their hands will become weak,
and all their knees will turn to water.

International Standard Version

Every hand will be limp. Every knee will glisten with sweat."

American Standard Version

All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

Amplified

All hands will hang limp and all knees will be as weak as water.

Bible in Basic English

All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water.

Darby Translation

All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall melt into water.

Julia Smith Translation

All hands shall be relaxed, and all knees shall go into water.

King James 2000

All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

Lexham Expanded Bible

All of the hands will hang limp, and all of {the knees will be wet with urine}.

Modern King James verseion

All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall go weak as water.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

All hands shall be let down, and all knees shall be weak as the water;

NET Bible

All of their hands will hang limp; their knees will be wet with urine.

New Heart English Bible

All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

The Emphasized Bible

All hands shall be unnerved; and All knees shall be weak as water,

Webster

All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

World English Bible

All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

Youngs Literal Translation

All the hands are feeble, and all knees go -- waters.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

רפה 
Raphah 
Usage: 46

and all knees
בּרך 
Berek 
Usage: 25

shall be weak
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

Verse Info

Context Readings

Punishment For Abominations Throughout The Land

16 But those of them who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys. All of them moaning, each one in his iniquity. 17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. 18 They 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

Ezekiel 21:7

And it shall be, when they say to thee, Why do thou sigh? That thou shall say, Because of the news. For it comes, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak

Jeremiah 6:24

We have heard the report of it. Our hands grow feeble. Anguish has taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.

Hebrews 12:12

Therefore lift up the drooping hands, and the feeble knees,

Isaiah 13:7-8

Therefore all hands shall 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, LORD, have spoken it, and will do it.

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