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Isaiah 13:7-9
New English Translation
Isaiah 13:7-9
New English Translation
7 For this reason all hands hang limp,[a]
every human heart loses its courage.[b]
8 They panic—
cramps and pain seize hold of them
like those of a woman who is straining to give birth.
They look at one another in astonishment;
their faces are flushed red.[c]
9 Look, the Lord’s day of judgment[d] is coming;
it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger,[e]
destroying[f] the earth[g]
and annihilating its sinners.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 13:7 tn Heb “drop”; KJV “be faint”; ASV “be feeble”; NAB “fall helpless.”
- Isaiah 13:7 tn Heb “melts” (so NAB).
- Isaiah 13:8 tn Heb “their faces are faces of flames.” Their faces are flushed with fear and embarrassment.
- Isaiah 13:9 tn Heb “the day of the Lord.”
- 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.
- Isaiah 13:9 tn Heb “making desolate.”
- Isaiah 13:9 tn Or “land” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT).
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