Therefore all hands will be limp,
Every man’s heart will melt,

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And it shall be when they say to you, ‘Why are you sighing?’ that you shall answer, ‘Because of the news; when it comes, every heart will melt, (A)all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint, and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it is coming and shall be brought to pass,’ says the Lord God.”

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10 She is empty, desolate, and waste!
The heart melts, and the knees shake;
Much pain is in every side,
And all their faces [a]are drained of color.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:10 LXX, Tg., Vg. gather blackness; Joel 2:6

Who can stand before His indignation?
And (A)who can endure the fierceness of His anger?
His fury is poured out like fire,
And the rocks are thrown down by Him.

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17 Every (A)hand will be feeble,
And every knee will be as weak as water.

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Proclamation Against Egypt

19 The (A)burden[a] against Egypt.

Behold, the Lord (B)rides on a swift cloud,
And will come into Egypt;
(C)The idols of Egypt will [b]totter at His presence,
And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 19:1 oracle, prophecy
  2. Isaiah 19:1 Lit. shake

43 “The king of Babylon has (A)heard the report about them,
And his hands grow feeble;
Anguish has taken hold of him,
Pangs as of a woman in (B)childbirth.

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20 (A)Your sons have fainted,
They lie at the head of all the streets,
Like an antelope in a net;
They are full of the fury of the Lord,
The rebuke of your God.

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27 Therefore their inhabitants had little power;
They were dismayed and confounded;
They were as the grass of the field
And the green herb,
As the grass on the housetops
And grain blighted before it is grown.

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(A)What will you do in (B)the day of punishment,
And in the desolation which will come from (C)afar?
To whom will you flee for help?
And where will you leave your glory?
Without Me they shall bow down among the (D)prisoners,
And they shall fall [a]among the slain.”

(E)For all this His anger is not turned away,
But His hand is stretched out still.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 10:4 Lit. under

15 (A)Then (B)the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed;
(C)The mighty men of Moab,
Trembling will take hold of them;
(D)All the inhabitants of Canaan will (E)melt away.

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