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Look, the Lord’s day of judgment[a] is coming;
it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger,[b]
destroying[c] the earth[d]
and annihilating its sinners.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:9 tn Heb “the day of the Lord.”
  2. Isaiah 13:9 tn Heb “[with] cruelty, and fury, and rage of anger.” Three synonyms for “anger” are piled up at the end of the line to emphasize the extraordinary degree of divine anger that will be exhibited in this judgment.
  3. Isaiah 13:9 tn Heb “making desolate.”
  4. Isaiah 13:9 tn Or “land” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT).

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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