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Isaiah 13:9

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.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
הִנֵּ֤הhi.Nehthere!H2009 →
יוֹם־yom-[the] day ofH3117 →
יְהוָה֙Yah.wehYahwehH3068 →
בָּ֔אBa'[is] comingH935 →
אַכְזָרִ֥י'akh.za.Ria cruel [day]H394 →
וְעֶבְרָ֖הve.'ev.Rahand wrathH5678 →
וַחֲר֣וֹןva.cha.Ronand burning ofH2740 →
אָ֑ף'AfangerH639 →
לָשׂ֤וּםla.Sumto makeH7760 →
הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ha.'A.retzthe landH776 →
לְשַׁמָּ֔הle.sha.Mah<into> a wasteH8047 →
וְחַטָּאֶ֖יהָve.cha.ta.'Ei.haand sinners itsH2400 →
יַשְׁמִ֥ידyash.Midhe will destroyH8045 →
מִמֶּֽנָּה׃mi.Me.nahfrom itH4480 →

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Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”Nahum 1:6Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.Isaiah 13:15–18Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.Zechariah 14:1Behold, a day of the LORD is coming when your plunder will be divided in your presence.Isaiah 13:6Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.Revelation 17:16–17And the ten horns and the beast that you saw will hate the prostitute. They will leave her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and burn her with fire.Jeremiah 6:22–23This is what the LORD says: “Behold, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is stirred up from the ends of the earth.Nahum 1:2The LORD is a jealous and avenging God; the LORD is avenging and full of wrath. The LORD takes vengeance on His foes and reserves wrath for His enemies.Isaiah 47:10–15You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’Jeremiah 50:40–42As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah along with their neighbors,” declares the LORD, “no one will dwell there; no man will abide there.Jeremiah 51:35–58May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.Psalms 104:35May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!Acts 2:20The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and glorious Day of the Lord.Ezekiel 13:5You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it would stand in the battle on the Day of the LORD.Proverbs 2:22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.Revelation 18:8Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”Isaiah 2:12For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted—it will be humbled—Isaiah 9:19By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.

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Isaiah's Vision of the Destruction of Babylon — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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