17All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because 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 shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: …
Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.
We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-22)We have attended the fate of those that are cut off, and are now to attend the flight of those that have an opportunity of escaping the danger; some of them shall escape (Ezek. 7:16), but what the better? As good die once as, in a miserable life, die a thousand deaths, and escape only like Cain to be fugitives and vagabonds , and afraid of being slain by every one they meet; so shall these be. I.…
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