Isaiah 13:6

THE MESSAGE

Wail! God 's Day of Judgment is near— an avalanche crashing down from the Strong God! Everyone paralyzed in the panic, hysterical and unstrung, Doubled up in pain like a woman giving birth to a baby. Horrified—everyone they see is like a face out of a nightmare.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Wail! For the day of the Lord is near.It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Hebrew Names Version
Wail; for the day of the LORD is at hand; as destruction from Shaddai shall it come.

King James Version
Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

English Standard Version
Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!

New American Standard Bible
Wail, for the day of the LORD is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

New Century Version
Cry, because the Lord 's day of judging is near; the Almighty is sending destruction.

Amplified Bible
Wail, for the day of the LORD is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty (All Sufficient One—Invincible God)!

World English Bible
Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Howle you, for the day of the Lorde is at hande: it shall come as a destroier from the Almightie.

Legacy Standard Bible
Wail, for the day of Yahweh is near!It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Berean Standard Bible
Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Contemporary English Version
Cry and weep! The day is coming when the mighty Lord will bring destruction.

Complete Jewish Bible
Howl! for the Day of Adonai is at hand, destruction coming from Shaddai.

Darby Translation
Howl, for the day of Jehovah is at hand; it cometh as destruction from the Almighty.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord 's special day is near. So cry and be sad for yourselves. A time is coming when the enemy will steal your wealth. God All-Powerful will make that happen.

George Lamsa Translation
Howl; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a plunder which is made suddenly.

Good News Translation
Howl in pain! The day of the Lord is near, the day when the Almighty brings destruction.

Lexham English Bible
Wail, for the day of Yahweh is near; it will come like destruction from Shaddai!

Literal Translation
Howl! For the day of Jehovah is at hand. It shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Mourne therfore, for the daye of the LORDE is at honde, and commeth as a destroyer from ye allmighty.

American Standard Version
Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Bible in Basic English
Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

King James Version (1611)
Howle yee; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Mourne ye, for the day of the Lord is at hande, and shall come as a destroyer from the almightie.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near, and destruction from God shall arrive.

English Revised Version
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Yelle ye, for the dai of the Lord is niy; as wastyng it schal come of the Lord.

Update Bible Version
Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty it shall come.

Webster's Bible Translation
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

New English Translation
Wail, for the Lord 's day of judgment is near; it comes with all the destructive power of the sovereign Judge.

New King James Version
Wail, for the day of the LORD is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

New Living Translation
Scream in terror, for the day of the Lord has arrived— the time for the Almighty to destroy.

New Life Bible
Cry out in sorrow, for the day of the Lord is near! It will come as a destroying power from the All-powerful.

New Revised Standard
Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Howl ye! for at hand is the day of Yahweh, - As a veritable destruction from the Almighty, shall it come.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it shall come as a destruction from the Lord.

Revised Standard Version
Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!

Young's Literal Translation
Howl ye, for near [is] the day of Jehovah, As destruction from the Mighty it cometh.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Wail, for the day of the LORD is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Contextual Overview

⁶Wail! God 's Day of Judgment is near— an avalanche crashing down from the Strong God! Everyone paralyzed in the panic, hysterical and unstrung, Doubled up in pain like a woman giving birth to a baby. Horrified—everyone they see is like a face out of a nightmare. ⁹"Watch now. God 's Judgment Day comes. Cruel it is, a day of wrath and anger, A day to waste the earth and clean out all the sinners. The stars in the sky, the great parade of constellations, will be nothing but black holes. The sun will come up as a black disk, and the moon a blank nothing. I'll put a full stop to the evil on earth, terminate the dark acts of the wicked. I'll gag all braggarts and boasters—not a peep anymore from them— and trip strutting tyrants, leave them flat on their faces. Proud humanity will disappear from the earth. I'll make mortals rarer than hens' teeth. And yes, I'll even make the sky shake, and the earth quake to its roots Under the wrath of God -of-the-Angel-Armies, the Judgment Day of his raging anger. Like a hunted white-tailed deer, like lost sheep with no shepherd, People will huddle with a few of their own kind, run off to some makeshift shelter. But tough luck to stragglers—they'll be killed on the spot, throats cut, bellies ripped open, Babies smashed on the rocks while mothers and fathers watch, Houses looted, wives raped. ¹⁷"And now watch this: Against Babylon, I'm inciting the Medes, A ruthless bunch indifferent to bribes, the kind of brutality that no one can blunt. They massacre the young, wantonly kick and kill even babies. And Babylon, most glorious of all kingdoms, the pride and joy of Chaldeans, Will end up smoking and stinking like Sodom, and, yes, like Gomorrah, when God had finished with them. No one will live there anymore, generation after generation a ghost town. Not even Bedouins will pitch tents there. Shepherds will give it a wide berth. But strange and wild animals will like it just fine, filling the vacant houses with eerie night sounds. Skunks will make it their home, and unspeakable night hags will haunt it. Hyenas will curdle your blood with their laughing, and the howling of coyotes will give you the shivers. "Babylon is doomed. It won't be long now."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Howl ye: Isaiah 14:31, Isaiah 23:1, Isaiah 52:5, Isaiah 65:14, Jeremiah 25:34, Jeremiah 49:3, Jeremiah 51:8, Ezekiel 21:12, Ezekiel 30:2, Joel 1:5, Joel 1:11, Joel 1:13, Zephaniah 1:14, James 5:1, Revelation 18:10

for the day: Isaiah 13:9, Isaiah 34:8, Ezekiel 30:3, Joel 2:11, Joel 2:31, Amos 5:18, Zephaniah 1:7, Zephaniah 2:2, Zephaniah 2:3, Malachi 4:5, 1 Thessalonians 5:2, 1 Thessalonians 5:3

as a: Job 31:23, Joel 1:15

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:23 - shall destroy Joshua 5:1 - neither was Psalms 48:6 - Fear Psalms 76:12 - terrible Isaiah 2:12 - the day Jeremiah 4:8 - howl Jeremiah 4:20 - upon destruction Jeremiah 16:15 - that brought Jeremiah 30:6 - every Jeremiah 46:10 - the day Jeremiah 50:3 - which Jeremiah 50:43 - king Jeremiah 51:54 - General Ezekiel 13:5 - the day Daniel 5:9 - changed Nahum 3:10 - her young Zechariah 14:1 - General Revelation 4:8 - Lord God Almighty Revelation 6:17 - the great Revelation 22:10 - for

Cross-References

Genesis 13:10
Lot looked. He saw the whole plain of the Jordan spread out, well watered (this was before God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah), like God 's garden, like Egypt, and stretching all the way to Zoar. Lot took the whole plain of the Jordan. Lot set out to the east. That's how they came to part company, uncle and nephew. Abram settled in Canaan; Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent near Sodom. The people of Sodom were evil—flagrant sinners against God . After Lot separated from him, God said to Abram, "Open your eyes, look around. Look north, south, east, and west. Everything you see, the whole land spread out before you, I will give to you and your children forever. I'll make your descendants like dust—counting your descendants will be as impossible as counting the dust of the Earth. So—on your feet, get moving! Walk through the country, its length and breadth; I'm giving it all to you." Abram moved his tent. He went and settled by the Oaks of Mamre in Hebron. There he built an altar to God .

Genesis 13:18
Abram moved his tent. He went and settled by the Oaks of Mamre in Hebron. There he built an altar to God .

1 Timothy 6:9
But if it's only money these leaders are after, they'll self-destruct in no time. Lust for money brings trouble and nothing but trouble. Going down that path, some lose their footing in the faith completely and live to regret it bitterly ever after.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand,.... These words are an address to the Babylonians, who instead of rejoicing and feasting, as Belshazzar and his nobles were the night that Babylon was taken, had reason to howl and lament; seeing the day that the Lord had fixed for their destruction was very near, and he was just about to come forth as a judge to take vengeance on them; for though it was about two hundred and fifty years from the time of this prophecy, to the taking of Babylon, yet it is represented as at hand, to show the certainty of it, both for the comfort of the Jewish captives, when they should be in it, and for the awakening of the sluggish inhabitants, who were secure, and thought themselves out of danger:

it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty: suddenly, swiftly, and irresistibly: there is a beautiful paronomasia in the Hebrew text, "ceshod mishaddai" c; as destruction from the destroyer; from God, who is able to save, and to destroy; he is almighty and all sufficient, so some render the word; the hand of God was visible in it.

c כשוד משדי.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Howl ye - Ye inhabitants of Babylon, in view of the approaching destruction.

The day of the Lord - The time when Yahweh will inflict vengeance on you draws near (see the note at Isaiah 2:12; compare Isaiah 13:9).

As a destruction from the Almighty - Not as a desolation from man, but as destruction sent from him who has all power in heaven and on earth. Destruction meditated by man might be resisted; but destruction that should come from the Almighty must be final and irresistible. The word ‘Almighty’ שׁדי shadday, one of the names given to God in the Scriptures, denotes, properly, “one who is mighty,” or who has all power; and is correctly rendered Almighty, or Omnipotent; Genesis 17:1; Genesis 28:3; Genesis 48:3; Exodus 6:3; Ruth 1:20; Job 5:17; Job 6:4, Job 6:14; Job 8:3, Job 8:5; Job 11:7; Job 13:4; Job 15:25. In the Hebrew here, there is a paronomasia or “pun” - a figure of speech quite common in the Scriptures, which cannot be retained in the translation - ‘It shall come as a destruction (כשׁד k^eshod) from the Almighty (משׁדי mı̂shadday).’