(A)But you, you are to be feared!
    Who can (B)stand before you
    when once your anger is roused?

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But (A)who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For (B)he is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.

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11 (A)The Lord utters his voice
    before (B)his army,
for his camp is exceedingly great;
    (C)he who executes his word is powerful.
(D)For the day of the Lord is (E)great and very awesome;
    (F)who can endure it?

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14 For they are (A)demonic spirits, (B)performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, (C)to assemble them for battle on (D)the great day of God the Almighty.

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31 (A)The sun shall be turned to darkness, (B)and the moon to blood, (C)before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.

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Alas! (A)That day is so great
    (B)there is none like it;
it is a time of distress for Jacob;
    yet he shall be saved out of it.

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But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are (A)storing up (B)wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed.

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14 (A)The great day of the Lord is near,
    near and hastening fast;
the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter;
    (B)the mighty man cries aloud there.
15 (C)A day of wrath is that day,
    a day of distress and anguish,
a day of (D)ruin and devastation,
    (E)a day of darkness and gloom,
(F)a day of clouds and thick darkness,
16     (G)a day of trumpet blast and battle cry
(H)against the fortified cities
    and against the lofty battlements.

17 (I)I will bring distress on mankind,
    so that they shall walk (J)like the blind,
    because they have sinned against the Lord;
(K)their blood shall be poured out like dust,
    and their flesh (L)like dung.
18 (M)Neither their silver nor their gold
    shall be able to deliver them
    on the day of the wrath of the Lord.
(N)In the fire of his jealousy,
    (O)all the earth shall be consumed;
(P)for a full and sudden end
    he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

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(A)Wail, for (B)the day of the Lord is near;
    as destruction from the Almighty[a] it will come!
Therefore all hands will be feeble,
    and every human heart (C)will melt.
They will be dismayed:
    (D)pangs and agony will seize them;
    (E)they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at one another;
    their faces will be aflame.

Behold, (F)the day of the Lord comes,
    cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,
to make the land a desolation
    and (G)to destroy its sinners from it.
10 (H)For the stars of the heavens and their constellations
    will not give their light;
(I)the sun will be dark at its rising,
    and the moon will not shed its light.
11 I will punish (J)the world for its evil,
    and the wicked for their iniquity;
I will (K)put an end to the pomp of the arrogant,
    (L)and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.
12 I will make (M)people more rare than fine gold,
    and mankind than the (N)gold of Ophir.
13 Therefore (O)I will make the heavens tremble,
    and the earth will be shaken out of its place,
at the wrath of the Lord of hosts
    in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And like a hunted gazelle,
    or like sheep with none to gather them,
(P)each will turn to his own people,
    and each will flee to his own land.
15 Whoever is found will be thrust through,
    and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.
16 (Q)Their infants will be dashed in pieces
    before their eyes;
their houses will be plundered
    and their wives ravished.

17 Behold, (R)I am stirring up the Medes against them,
    who have no regard for silver
    and do not delight in gold.
18 (S)Their bows will slaughter[b] the young men;
    they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;
    their eyes will not pity children.
19 And Babylon, (T)the glory of kingdoms,
    the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans,
will be (U)like Sodom and Gomorrah
    when God overthrew them.
20 (V)It will never be inhabited
    or lived in for all generations;
no (W)Arab will pitch his tent there;
    no (X)shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
21 But (Y)wild animals will lie down there,
    and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there (Z)ostriches[c] will dwell,
    and there wild goats will dance.
22 Hyenas[d] will cry in its towers,
    and (AA)jackals in (AB)the pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand
    and its days will not be prolonged.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:6 The Hebrew words for destruction and almighty sound alike
  2. Isaiah 13:18 Hebrew dash in pieces
  3. Isaiah 13:21 Or owls
  4. Isaiah 13:22 Or foxes

18 The nations raged,
    but (A)your wrath came,
    and (B)the time for the dead to be judged,
and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints,
    and (C)those who fear your name,
    both small and great,
and (D)for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”

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And (A)the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—

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36 But (A)stay awake at all times, (B)praying that you may (C)have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and (D)to stand before the Son of Man.”

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If you, O Lord, should (A)mark iniquities,
    O Lord, who could (B)stand?
But with you there is (C)forgiveness,
    (D)that you may be feared.

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