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UST Because they will be very afraid, all the people’s hands will become limp and weak, and their knees will become very weak and unable to hold them up.

BSB Every hand will go limp,
⇔ and every knee will turn to water.

OEB No OEB EZE 7:17 verse available

WEB All hands will be feeble, and all knees will be weak as water.

NET All of their hands will hang limp; their knees will be wet with urine.

LSV All the hands are feeble, and all knees go [as] waters.

FBV Every hand will go limp, and every knee will go weak.

T4T Because everyone will be very afraid, all the people’s hands will become limp and their knees will become very weak.

LEB All of the hands will hang limp, and all of the knees will be wet with urine.[fn]

?:? Literally “the knees will flow with water”

BBE All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water.

MOF No MOF EZE book available

JPS All hands shall be slack, and all knees shall drip with water.

ASV All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

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

YLT All the hands are feeble, and all knees go — waters.

DBY All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall melt into water.

RV All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

WBS All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

KJB All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.[fn]
(All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.)

7.17 be weak…: Heb. go into water

BB All handes shalbe let downe, and all knees shalbe weake as the water.
(All hands shall be let down, and all knees shall be weake as the water.)

GNV All handes shalbe weake, and all knees shall fall away as water.
(All hands shall be weake, and all knees shall fall away as water. )

CB All hondes shalbe letten downe, and all knees shalbe weake as the water:
(All hands shall be letten down, and all knees shall be weake as the water:)

WYC Alle hondis schulen be aclumsid, and alle knees schulen flowe with watris.
(All hands should be aclumsid, and all knees should flowe with waters.)

LUT Aller Hände werden dahinsinken und aller Kniee werden so ungewiß stehen wie Wasser.
(Aller Hände become dahinsinken and aller Kniee become so ungewiß stehen like water.)

CLV Omnes manus dissolventur, et omnia genua fluent aquis.
(Omnes manus dissolventur, and omnia genua fluent aquis. )

BRN All hands shall be completely weakened, and all thighs shall be defiled with moisture.

BrLXX Πᾶσαι χεῖρες ἐκλυθήσονται, καὶ πάντες μηροὶ μολυνθήσονται ὑγρασίᾳ.
(Pasai ⱪeires ekluthaʸsontai, kai pantes maʸroi molunthaʸsontai hugrasia. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

General Information:

These are Yahweh’s words about Israel.

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche

(Occurrence 0) Every hand will falter and every knee will be weak as water

(Some words not found in UHB: all/each/any/every the,hands hang_limp and=all knees become water )

The hands and knees are synecdoches for the people themselves. Alternate translation: “Everyone will be so terrified that they will be unable to work and their knees will become weak so that they cannot stand”

(Occurrence 0) falter

(Some words not found in UHB: all/each/any/every the,hands hang_limp and=all knees become water )

fail to do what it is supposed to do

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / euphemism

(Occurrence 0) every knee will be weak as water

(Some words not found in UHB: all/each/any/every the,hands hang_limp and=all knees become water )

Another possible translation is, “every knee will flow with water,” a euphemism for all the people losing control of their bladders because they are so frightened.

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

(Occurrence 0) knee … weak as water

(Some words not found in UHB: all/each/any/every the,hands hang_limp and=all knees become water )

Water cannot stand up, and the people’s knees will be so weak that the people are unable to stand on their legs.

Parallel EZE 7:17

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