Isaiah 13:9
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
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Proverbs 2:22But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and they that deal treacherously shall be rooted out of it.
Isaiah 13:6Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Isaiah 34:8For it is the day of the LORD’S vengeance, the year of recompence in the controversy of Zion.
Isaiah 63:4For the day of vengeance was in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
Jeremiah 6:22Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country; and a great nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
Jeremiah 51:35The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall 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 →