Isaiah 13:9

For behold! the day of the Lord is coming which cannot be + 13:9 Gr. healed.escaped, a day of wrath and anger, to make the world desolate, and to destroy sinners out of it.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

In Context

8The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in travail: and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame.

10For the stars of heaven, and Orion, and all the host of heaven, shall not give their light; and it shall be dark at sunrise, and the moon shall not give her light.

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Cross References

Proverbs 2:22The paths of the ungodly shall perish out of the earth, and transgressors shall be driven away from it.

Isaiah 13:6Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near, and destruction from God shall arrive.

Isaiah 34:8For it is the day of the judgment of the Lord, and the year of the recompence of Sion in judgment.

Isaiah 63:4For the day of recompence has come upon them, and the year of redemption is at hand.

Jeremiah 6:22Thus saith the Lord, Behold, a people comes from the north, and nations shall be stirred up from the end of the earth.

Jeremiah 51:35And wilt thou seek great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but I will give to thee thy life for a spoil in every place whither thou shalt go.

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 →

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