Isaiah 13:9

Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.

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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

8They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.

10For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

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Cross References

Proverbs 2:22But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Isaiah 13:6Wail, for the LORD’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Isaiah 34:8For the 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 6:22The LORD says, “Behold, a people comes from the north country. A great nation will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

Jeremiah 51:35May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!” the inhabitant of Zion will say; and, “May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!” will Jerusalem 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 →

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