Isaiah 13:11

And I will visit, upon the inhabited earth, calamity!, And upon the lawless, their punishment, And will quiet the arrogance of the proud, And the loftiness of tyrants, will I lay low.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

10For the stars of the heavens and their constellations, shall not flash forth their light,—Obscured shall be the sun in his going forth, And the moon, shall not shed her light.

12I will cause, a man, to be more precious than fine gold,—Even a son of earth than, the finest gold of Ophir.

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Cross References

Proverbs 11:31Lo! the righteous, in the earth shall be recompensed, how much more the lawless and the sinner.

Isaiah 2:12For, a day of Yahweh of hosts, [shall be] —Upon every one who is high and lofty,—And upon every one who is lifted up, And he shall be brought low;

Isaiah 3:11Alas! for the lawless, it is ill, For what his own hand hath matured, shall be done to him.

Isaiah 11:4But he will judge with righteousness! them who are poor, And decide with equity! for the oppressed of the land,—And he will smite the land With the sceptre of his mouth, And with the breath of his lips, will he slay the lawless one;

Isaiah 14:21Prepare—for his sons—shambles. For the iniquity of their fathers,—They shall not rise nor possess the earth, Nor fill the face of the world with cities.

Isaiah 25:5As heat in a desert, the pomp of foreigners, wilt thou subdue,—Heat—with the shade of a cloud, The song of tyrants! become low.

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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