Isaiah 13:9

Behold, the Day of YHWH comes, || Fierce, with wrath, and heat of anger, || To make the land become a desolation, || Indeed, He destroys its sinning ones from it.

Literal Standard Version

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

8And they have been troubled, || Pains and pangs take them, || They are pained as a travailing woman, || A man marvels at his friend, || The appearance of flames—their faces!

10For the stars of the heavens, and their constellations, || Do not cause their light to shine, || The sun has been darkened in its going out, || And the moon does not cause its light to come forth.

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Cross References

Proverbs 2:22And the wicked are cut off from the earth, || And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!

Isaiah 13:6Howl, for the Day of YHWH [is] near, || It comes as destruction from the Mighty.

Isaiah 34:8(For a day of vengeance [is] to YHWH, || A year of recompenses for Zion’s strife),

Isaiah 63:4For the day of vengeance [is] in My heart, || And the year of My redeemed has come.

Jeremiah 6:22Thus said YHWH: “Behold, a people has come from a north country, || And a great nation is stirred up from the sides of the earth.

Jeremiah 51:35My wrong, and [that of] my flesh, [is] on Babylon—The inhabitant of Zion says; And my blood [is] on the inhabitants of Chaldea—Jerusalem says.

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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