King James Version
Isaiah 13:7 in the King James Version says “Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: be faint: or, fall down” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: be faint: or, fall down”
Isaiah 13:7 · KJV
They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: be faint: or, fall down
And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. be amazed: Heb. wonder one: Heb. every man at his neighbour flames: Heb. faces of the flames
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
KJV Study — Public Domain
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“Therefore shall all hands”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“and every man's”
H582properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified h0120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
“shall melt”
H4549to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)
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