Isaiah 13:11
And I have appointed on the world evil, And on the wicked their iniquity, And have caused to cease the excellency of the proud, And the excellency of the terrible I make low.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
12I make man more rare than fine gold, And a common man than pure gold of Ophir.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:31Lo, the righteous in the earth is recompensed, Surely also the wicked and the sinner!
Isaiah 2:12For a day [is] to Jehovah of Hosts, For every proud and high one, And for every lifted up and low one,
Isaiah 3:11Woe to the wicked — evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.
Isaiah 11:4And he hath judged in righteousness the poor, And decided in uprightness for the humble of earth, And hath smitten earth with the rod of his mouth, And with the breath of his lips he putteth the wicked to death.
Isaiah 14:21Prepare ye for his sons slaughter; Because of the iniquity of their fathers, They rise not, nor have possessed the land, Nor filled the face of the world [with] cities.
Isaiah 25:5As heat in a dry place, The noise of strangers Thou humblest, Heat with the shadow of a thick cloud, The singing of the terrible is humbled.
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 →