Isaiah 13:9

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁶Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty. ⁷Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man's heart will melt. ⁸Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look in astonishment at one another, their faces aflame with fear. ⁹Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming-cruel, with fury and burning anger-to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.¹⁰For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened when it rises, and the moon will not give its light. ¹¹I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and humiliate the pride of tyrants. ¹²I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir. ¹³Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts on the day of His burning anger. ¹⁴Like a hunted gazelle and like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land. ¹⁵Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.

Bible Verse Review
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cruel: Isaiah 13:15-18, Isaiah 47:10-15, Jeremiah 6:22, Jeremiah 6:23, Jeremiah 50:40-42, Jeremiah 51:35-58, Nahum 1:2, Nahum 1:6, Malachi 4:1, Revelation 17:16, Revelation 17:17, Revelation 18:8, Revelation 19:17-21

he shall: Psalms 104:35, Proverbs 2:22

Reciprocal: Judges 20:41 - were amazed Isaiah 2:12 - the day Isaiah 13:6 - for the day Ezekiel 13:5 - the day Joel 2:31 - sun Zechariah 14:1 - General Acts 2:20 - sun Revelation 6:12 - the sun

Cross-References

Genesis 13:8
So Abram said to Lot, "Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are brothers.

Genesis 13:12
Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodom were wicked, sinning greatly against the LORD.

Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

Genesis 20:15
And Abimelech said, "Look, my land is before you. Settle wherever you please."

Genesis 34:10
You may settle among us, and the land will be open to you. Live here, move about freely, and acquire your own property."

Psalms 120:7
I am in favor of peace; but when I speak, they want war.

Romans 12:18
If it is possible on your part, live at peace with everyone.

1 Corinthians 6:7
The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

Hebrews 12:14
Pursue peace with all men, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Behold, the day of the Lord cometh,.... Or "is come" e; said in Isaiah 13:6 to be at hand, but now it is represented in prophecy as already come:

cruel both with wrath and fierce anger; which, whether referred to "the Lord", or to "the day", the sense is the same; the day may be said to be cruel, and full of wrath and fury, because of the severity and fierceness of the Lord's anger, exercised upon the Babylonians in it; and he may be said to be so, not that he really is cruel, or exceeds the bounds of justice, but because he seemed to be so to the objects of his displeasure; as a judge may be thought to be cruel and severe by the malefactor, when he only pronounces and executes a righteous judgment on him; a heap of words are here made use of, to express the greatness and fierceness of divine wrath:

to lay the land desolate; the land of the Chaldeans:

and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it; this shows that what is before said most properly belongs to the Lord, to whom the destruction of Babylon, and the country belonging to it, must be ascribed; and indeed it was such as could not be brought about by human force; the moving cause of which was the sin of the inhabitants, some of whom were notorious sinners, for whose sakes it was destroyed by the Lord, and they in the midst of it, or out of it; see Psalms 104:35.

e בא "venit", Piscator; "veniens", Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The day of the Lord cometh - See Isaiah 13:6.

Cruel - (אכזרי 'ak^ezārı̂y). This does not mean that “God” is cruel, but that the ‘day of Yahweh’ that was coming should be unsparing and destructive to them. It would be the exhibition of “justice,” but not of “cruelty;” and the word stands opposed here to mercy, and means that God would not spare them. The effect would be that the inhabitants of Babylon would be destroyed.

Fierce anger - Hebrew, (חרון אף 'aph chărôn) ‘A glow, or burning of anger.’ The phrase denotes the most intense indignation (compare Numbers 25:4; Numbers 32:14; 1 Samuel 28:18).

To lay the land desolate - Chaldea, Isaiah 13:5.