May sin disappear from the earth.\par May wicked people be gone forever.\par
Isaiah 13:9 - Easy To Read Version Look, the Lord’s special day is coming! It will be a terrible day. God will become very angry, and he will destroy the country. God will force all people that sin to leave the country. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Behold, the day of the Lord is coming!–fierce, with wrath and raging anger–to make the land and the [whole] earth a desolation and to destroy out of it its sinners. [Isa. 2:10-22; Rev. 19:11-21.] American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible Look, the day of the LORD is coming with cruel rage and burning anger, making the earth a ruin, and wiping out its sinners. Catholic Public Domain Version Behold, the day of the Lord approaches: a cruel day, full of indignation and wrath and fury, which will place the earth in solitude and crush the sinners from it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Behold, the day of the Lord shall come, a cruel day, and full of indignation, and of wrath, and fury, to lay the land desolate, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it. |
May sin disappear from the earth.\par May wicked people be gone forever.\par
But evil people will lose their land. People who lie and cheat will be taken away from the land.
The Lord’s special day is near. So cry and be sad for yourselves. A time is coming when the enemy will steal your wealth. God All-Powerful will make that happen. {\cf2\super [142]}
The Lord has a special day planned. On that day, the Lord will punish the proud and boastful people. Then those proud people will be made not important.
\{Those things will happen\} because the Lord has chosen a time for punishment. The Lord has chosen a year when people must pay for the wrong things they did to Zion. {\cf2\super [318]}
I chose a time to punish people.\par Now the time has come for me\par to save and protect my people.\par
Those people wash themselves to make themselves pure for worshiping in their special gardens. {\cf2\super [479]} These people follow each other into their special gardens. Then they worship their idols. But, the Lord will destroy all those people.
The Lord All-Powerful is angry, so the land will be burned. All the people will be burned in that fire. No person will try to save his brother.
You have not put soldiers near the broken walls of the city. You have not built walls to protect the family of Israel. So when the day comes for the Lord to punish you, you will lose the war!
That day is near!\par Yes, the Lord’s day for judging is near.\par It will be a cloudy day,\par It will be the time for judging the nations!\par
Be sad! Why? Because the Lord’s special day is near. At that time, punishment will come like an attack from God All-Powerful.
Blow the trumpet on Zion. {\cf2\super [10]} \par Shout a warning on my holy mountain.\par Let all the people that live in the land\par shake with fear.\par The Lord’s special day is coming.\par The Lord’s special day is near.\par
The sun will be changed into darkness,\par The moon will be changed into blood.\par And then the great and wonderful\par Day of the Lord will come!\par
The Lord is a jealous God.\par The Lord punishes guilty people.\par The Lord punishes guilty people,\par and the Lord is very angry!\par The Lord punishes his enemies.\par He stays angry at his enemies.\par
No person can stand against\par the Lord’s great anger.\par No one can endure his terrible anger.\par His anger will burn like fire.\par The rocks will shatter when he comes.\par
But he will destroy completely his enemies.\par He will wash them away like a flood.\par He will chase his enemies\par into the darkness.\par
God will show his anger at that time. It will be a time of terrible troubles. It will be a time of destruction. It will be a time of darkness—a black, cloudy, and stormy day.
Look, the Lord has a special day for judging. And the wealth you have taken will be divided in your city.
“That time of judgment is coming. It will be like a hot furnace. All those proud people will be punished. All those evil people will burn like straw. At that time, they will be like a bush burning in the fire—and there will not be a branch or root left.” The Lord All-Powerful said these things.
So these bad things will come to her\par in one day:\par death, sad crying, and great hunger.\par She will be destroyed by fire,\par because the Lord God who judges her\par is powerful.\par