Isaiah 13:11

Yahweh says, “I will punish everyone in the world for the evil things that they do; I will punish the wicked people for the sins that they have committed. I will stop arrogant/proud people from being proud, and I will stop ruthless people from acting cruelly.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

In Context

10When that happens, none of the stars will shine. When the sun rises, it will be dark, and there will be no light from the moon at night.

12And because I will cause most people to die, people will be harder to find than gold, harder to find than fine gold from Ophir in Arabia.

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Cross References

Proverbs 11:31Sometimes righteous people are rewarded here on the earth, but it is much more certain that very wicked people [DOU] will be rewarded by being punished.

Isaiah 2:12The Commander of the armies of angels has chosen a day when he will judge those who are proud, every one of them [DOU], and he will humble them.

Isaiah 3:11But terrible things will happen to wicked people; they will be ◄paid back/punished► for the evil things that [MTY] they have done.

Isaiah 11:4He will judge the cases of needy people fairly; and he will act justly toward poor people. He will punish evil people as a result of what he decides [MTY]; he will get rid of wicked people because of [MTY] their behavior.

Isaiah 14:21People will say, ‘Slaughter this man’s children because of the sins that their ancestors committed! Do not allow them to become rulers and conquer all the nations in the world, and fill the world with the cities that they rule!’”

Isaiah 25:5and like [SIM] the intense heat in the desert. But you cause the roaring of people in foreign nations to cease. Like the air cools when a cloud comes overhead, you stop ruthless/cruel people from singing songs boasting about their being very great.

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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