Isaiah 13:9
Behold, the day of LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
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Proverbs 2:22But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
Isaiah 13:6Wail ye, for the day of LORD is at hand. It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah 34:8For LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
Isaiah 63:4For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come.
Jeremiah 6:22Thus says LORD, Behold, a people comes from the north country, and a great nation shall be stirred up from the outermost parts of the earth.
Jeremiah 51:35The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, the inhabitant of Zion shall say. And, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, Jerusalem shall say.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 13:7-19
The Doom of Babylon. ( b. c. 739.) 6 Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: 8 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. 9 Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy… Read the whole commentary →