Isaiah 13:9
Listen to this: The day that Yahweh has appointed/chosen is near, the day that he will furiously and fiercely punish you because he is very angry with you. He will cause your land of Babylonia to be desolate/barren, and he will destroy all the sinners in it.
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Proverbs 2:22Wicked people will be expelled from this land, and people who are not trustworthy will be thrown {God will throw them} out of it.
Isaiah 13:6You people of Babylon will scream because you will be terrified, because it will be the time that Yahweh has determined/chosen, the time for the all-powerful God to destroy your city.
Isaiah 34:8That will be the time when Yahweh gets revenge for what those people did to the people of Judah.
Isaiah 63:4I did that because it was time for me [SYN] to get revenge; it was time to rescue my people from those who had oppressed them.
Jeremiah 6:22Yahweh also says this: “You will see a huge army marching towards you from the north. An army of a great nation very far away is preparing to attack you.
Jeremiah 51:35So the people of [PRS] Jerusalem say to Yahweh, “Cause the people of Babylon to suffer like they caused us to suffer! Cause the people of Babylonia to be punished for killing [MTY] our people!”
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 →