🔥WEB · Ezekiel 7:17
What does Ezekiel 7:17 mean?
"All hands will be feeble, and all knees will be weak as water."
— Ezekiel 7:17 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but no one goes to the battle; for my wrath is on all its multitude.
“‘The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within. He who is in the field will die by the sword. He who is in the city will be devoured by famine and pestilence.
But those of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.
All hands will be feeble, and all knees will be weak as water.
They will also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.
As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing.
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