Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty!
Isaiah 14:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Wail, O gate; cry, O city; melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in its ranks. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Howl, O gate! Cry, O city! Melt away, O Philistia, all of you! For there is coming a smoke out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks and none stands aloof [in Hezekiah's battalions]. American Standard Version (1901) Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou art melted away, O Philistia, all of thee; for there cometh a smoke out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks. Common English Bible Wail, gate! Cry out, city! Melt in terror, all you Philistines! Smoke is coming from the north; there is no straggler in its ranks. Catholic Public Domain Version Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! All of Philistia has been prostrated. For a smoke will arrive from the north, and there is no one who will escape his army. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Howl, O gate: cry, O city. All Philistia is thrown down: for a smoke shall come from the north, and there is none that shall escape his troop. |
Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty!
Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the root of the snake will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.
Therefore let Moab wail; let everyone wail for Moab. Mourn, utterly stricken, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.
In the year that the commander-in-chief, who was sent by King Sargon of Assyria, came to Ashdod and fought against it and took it—
On that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; he sets up walls and bulwarks as a safeguard.
And her gates shall lament and mourn; desolate, she shall sit upon the ground.
Seek and read from the book of the Lord: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without its mate. For his mouth, it has commanded, and his spirit, it has gathered them.
I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron;
Then the Lord said to me: “Out of the north disaster shall break out on all the inhabitants of the land.
Thus says the Lord: See, waters are rising out of the north and shall become an overflowing torrent; they shall overflow the land and all that fills it, the city and those who live in it. People shall cry out, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.
because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains. For the Lord is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.