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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.
10 Indeed the stars in the sky and their constellations
no longer give out their light;[e]
the sun is darkened as soon as it rises,
and the moon does not shine.[f]

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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).
  5. Isaiah 13:10 tn Heb “do not flash forth their light.”
  6. Isaiah 13:10 tn Heb “does not shed forth its light.”

See, the day(A) of the Lord is coming
    —a cruel(B) day, with wrath(C) and fierce anger(D)
to make the land desolate
    and destroy the sinners within it.
10 The stars of heaven and their constellations
    will not show their light.(E)
The rising sun(F) will be darkened(G)
    and the moon will not give its light.(H)

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