I have also called aMy mighty ones for My anger—
Those who brejoice in My exaltation.”
Like that of many people!
A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together!
The Lord of hosts musters
The army for battle.
From the end of heaven—
The aLord and His weapons of indignation,
To destroy the whole bland.
aPangs1 and sorrows will take hold of them;
They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth;
They will be amazed at one another;
Their faces will be like flames.
Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger,
To lay the land desolate;
And He will destroy bits sinners from it.
Will not give their light;
The sun will be adarkened in its going forth,
And the moon will not cause its light to shine.
And the wicked for their iniquity;
bI will halt the arrogance of the proud,
And will lay low the haughtiness of the1 terrible.
And the earth will move out of her place,
In the wrath of the Lord of hosts
And in bthe day of His fierce anger.
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Isaiah 13:5
They come - That is, ' Yahweh and the weapons of his indignation' - the collected armies come. The prophet sees these assembled armies with Yahweh, as their leader, at their head.
From a far country - The country of the Medes and Persians. These nations, indeed, bordered on Babylonia, but still they stretched far to the north and east, and, probably, occupied nearly all the regions to the east of Babylon which were then known.
From the end of heaven - The Septuagint renders this, ̓ ̓ ̓́ ́ ͂ ̓͂ Ap' akrou themeliou tou ouranou - ' From the "extreme foundation" of the heaven.' The expression in the Hebrew, ' From the end, or extreme peri of heaven,' means, the distant horizon by which the earth appears to be bounded, where the sky and the land seem to meet. In Psalms 19:6, the phrase, ' from the end of the heaven' denotes the east, where the sun appears to rise; and ' unto the ends of it' denotes the west:
His going forth is from the end of the heaven;
And his circuit unto the ends of it.
It is here synonymous with the phrase, ' the end of the earth,' in Isaiah 5:26.
Even the Lord - The word ' even,' introduced here by the translators, weakens the three of this verse. The prophet means to say that Yahweh is coming at the head of those armies, which are the weapons of his indignation.
The weapons of his indignation - The assembled armies of the Medes and Persians, called ' the weapons of his indignation,' because by them he will accomplish the purposes of his anger against the city of Babylon (see the note at Isaiah 10:5).
To destroy the whole land - The whole territory of Babylonia, or Chaldea. Not only the city, but the nation and kingdom.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Isaiah 13:5:
Isaiah 13:9
Isaiah 41:9
Romans 9:22-23
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