Ezekiel 7:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Ezek 21:7 : 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.
Jer 6:24 : 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.
Heb 12:12 : 12 Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;
Isa 13:7-8 : 7 Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt: 8 and 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.
Ezek 22:14 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Isa 13:7-8
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7Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:
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.
Ezek 21:6-8
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6Sigh therefore, thou son of man; with the breaking of thy loins and with bitterness shalt thou sigh before their eyes.
7And 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.
8And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
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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.
Ezek 7:16
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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.
Isa 35:3
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3Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Nah 2:10
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10She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.
Jer 6:24
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24We have heard the report thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.
Heb 12:12
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12Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;
Amos 8:13
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13In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst.
Isa 40:30
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30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
Exod 15:15
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15Then were the chiefs of Edom dismayed; The mighty men of Moab, trembling taketh hold upon them: All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.
Isa 14:10
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10All they shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
Jer 30:6
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6Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child: wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
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Ps 109:24
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24My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.
Ezek 27:35
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35All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at thee, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their countenance.
Joel 2:6
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6At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale.
Job 4:5
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5But now it is come unto thee, and thou faintest; It toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
Isa 13:14
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14And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.
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Amos 2:16
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Lev 26:36-37
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36And as for them that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as one fleeth from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
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Zech 14:13
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Ezek 29:7
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Ezek 27:30
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