Isaiah 13:9

7 Therefore all hands will be limp,
Every man’s heart will melt,

8 And they will be afraid.
^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.

9 Behold, ^athe day of the Lord comes,
Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger,
To lay the land desolate;
And He will destroy ^bits sinners from it.

10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not give their light;
The sun will be ^adarkened in its going forth,
And the moon will not cause its light to shine.

11 “I will ^apunish the world for its evil,
And the wicked for their iniquity;
^bI will halt the arrogance of the proud,
And will lay low the haughtiness of the¹ terrible.

12 I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold,
A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Isaiah 13:9

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

Cruel - ( 'ak^e zārı̂y ). 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, ( 'aph chărôn ) ' A glow, or burning of anger.' The phrase denotes the most intense indignation (compare Numbers 25:4; Numbers 32:14; I Samuel 28:18).

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

**Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Isaiah 13:9:**

Job 30:21
Isaiah 2:12
Isaiah 13:6
Zechariah 7:14
Zechariah 14:6

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