KJV King James Version
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
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Isaiah 13:9
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Behold, 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.
WEB World English Bible
Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.
ASV American Standard Version
Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Lo, the day of Jehovah doth come, Fierce, with wrath, and heat of anger, To make the land become a desolation, Yea, its sinning ones He destroyeth from it.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 13
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 the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
הִנֵּ֤הH2009 · hin.nehbeholdיוֹם־H3117 · yomdayיְהוָה֙H3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDבָּ֔אH935 · boto come (in): comeאַכְזָרִ֥יH394 · akh.za.ricruelוְעֶבְרָ֖הH5678 · ev.rahfuryוַחֲר֣וֹןH2740 · cha.ronburning angerאָ֑ףH639 · aphface: angerלָשׂ֤וּםH7760 · sumto set: makeהָאָ֙רֶץ֙H776 · e.retsland: country/planetלְשַׁמָּ֔הH8047 · sham.mahhorror: destroyedוְחַטָּאֶ֖יהָH2400 · chat.tasinnerיַשְׁמִ֥ידH8045 · sha.madto destroyמִמֶּֽנָּה׃H4480 · minfrom
Cross-references
Nahum 1:6Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.Malachi 4:1For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.Isaiah 13:15-18Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined [unto them] shall fall by the sword.Isaiah 13:6Howl ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.Nahum 1:2God [is] jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and [is] furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth [wrath] for his enemies.Jeremiah 50:40-42As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour [cities] thereof, saith the LORD; [so] shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.Psalm 104:35Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.Isaiah 47:10-15For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I [am], and none else beside me.Jeremiah 51:35-58The violence done to me and to my flesh [be] upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.Jeremiah 6:22-23Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.Revelation 17:16-17And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.Proverbs 2:22But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.Revelation 18:8Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong [is] the Lord God who judgeth her.Revelation 19:17-21And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
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