Ezekiel 21:7

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And when they say to you, ‘Why do you sigh?’ you shall say, ‘Because of the tidings. When it comes, every heart will melt and all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes and it will be fulfilled,’ ” says the Lord God.

Cross References

2 Samuel 17:10

Then even the valiant man, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will utterly melt with fear; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and that those who are with him are valiant men.

2 Kings 21:12

therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such evil that the ears of every one who hears of it will tingle.

Psalm 58:7

Let them vanish like water that runs away; like grass let them be trodden down and wither.

Exodus 15:15

Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed; the leaders of Moab, trembling seizes them; all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.

Isaiah 13:7

Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every man's heart will melt,

Isaiah 28:19

As often as it passes through it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message.

Isaiah 35:3

Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.

Isaiah 7:2

When the house of David was told, “Syria is in league with Ephraim,” his heart and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.

Jeremiah 26:12

Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and all the people, saying, “The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and this city all the words you have heard.

Jeremiah 49:23

Concerning Damascus. “Hamath and Arpad are confounded, for they have heard evil tidings; they melt in fear, they are troubled like the sea which cannot be quiet.

Jeremiah 50:43

“The king of Babylon heard the report of them, and his hands fell helpless; anguish seized him, pain as of a woman in travail.

Jeremiah 8:18

My grief is beyond healing, my heart is sick within me.

Lamentations 5:17

For this our heart has become sick, for these things our eyes have grown dim,

Ezekiel 20:49

Then I said, “Ah Lord God! they are saying of me, ‘Is he not a maker of allegories?’ ”

Ezekiel 21:15

that their hearts may melt, and many fall at all their gates. I have given the glittering sword; ah! it is made like lightning, it is polished for slaughter.

Ezekiel 21:6

Sigh therefore, son of man; sigh with breaking heart and bitter grief before their eyes.

Ezekiel 21:8

And the word of the Lord came to me:

Ezekiel 22:14

Can your courage endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with you? I the Lord have spoken, and I will do it.

Ezekiel 24:19

And the people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things mean for us, that you are acting thus?”

Ezekiel 6:2

“Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them,

Ezekiel 7:17

All hands are feeble, and all knees weak as water.

Ezekiel 7:26

Disaster comes upon disaster, rumor follows rumor; they seek a vision from the prophet, but the law perishes from the priest, and counsel from the elders.

Daniel 5:6

Then the king's color changed, and his thoughts alarmed him; his limbs gave way, and his knees knocked together.

Leviticus 26:36

And as for those of you that are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a driven leaf shall put them to flight, and they shall flee as one flees from the sword, and they shall fall when none pursues.

Nahum 2:10

Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts faint and knees tremble, anguish is on all loins, all faces grow pale!

Luke 21:26

men fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Deuteronomy 20:8

And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, ‘What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest the heart of his fellows melt as his heart.’

Hebrews 12:12

Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,

Joshua 5:1

When all the kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites that were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no longer any spirit in them, because of the people of Israel.

Joshua 7:5

and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six men of them, and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim, and slew them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

1 Peter 4:7

The end of all things is at hand; therefore keep sane and sober for your prayers.