Isaiah 13:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:

Isaiah 13:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 21:7
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.
Isaiah 19:1
The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
Nahum 2:10
She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
Nahum 1:6
Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Ezekiel 7:17
All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-18)

We have here a very elegant and lively description of the terrible confusion and desolation which should be made in Babylon by the descent which the Medes and Persians should make upon it. Those that were now secure and easy were bidden to howl and make sad lamentation; for, I. God was about to appear in wrath against them, and it is a fearful thing to fall into his hands: The day of the Lord is a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. faint ... melt--So Jr 50:43; compare Jos 7:5. Babylon was taken by surprise on the night of Belshazzar’s impious feast (Da 5:30). Hence the sudden fainting and melting of hearts.