Ezekiel 7:17
Good News Translation
Everyone's hands will be weak, and their knees will shake.

New Revised Standard Version
All hands shall grow feeble, all knees turn to water.

Contemporary English Version
Your hands will tremble, and your knees go limp.

New American Bible
All their hands will hang limp, and all their knees turn to water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All hands shall be made feeble, and all knees shall run with water.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

All hands shall be made feeble, and all knees shall run with water.

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Ezekiel 21:7 And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou shalt say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and water shall run down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord God.

Isaiah 13:7,8 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall melt, . . .

Jeremiah 6:24 We have heard the fame thereof, our hands grow feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, as a woman in labour.

Hebrews 12:12 Wherefore, lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees:

be weak as water.

Context
The Desolation of Israel
16And such of them as shall flee shall escape: and they shall be in the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them trembling, every one for his iniquity. 17All hands shall be made feeble, and all knees shall run with water.18And they shall gird themselves with haircloth, and fear shall cover them and shame shall be upon every face, and baldness upon all their heads.…
Cross References
Hebrews 12:12
Wherefore, lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees:

Isaiah 13:7
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall melt,

Ezekiel 21:7
And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou shalt say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and water shall run down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord God.

Ezekiel 22:14
Shall thy heart endure, or shall thy hands prevail in the days which I will bring upon thee: I the Lord have spoken, and will do it.

Daniel 5:6
Then was the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him: and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.

Ezekiel 7:16
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