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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Isaiah 13:10

Stars. This is not to be taken literally, but only implies that the people shall be in as much consternation (Calmet) as if the world were at an end, ver. 13. (Haydock) (Grotius) (Matthew xxiv. 27., Apocalypse vi. 12., and Jeremias iv. 23.)

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See also Isaiah 13:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 13:10. _FOR THE STARS OF HEAVEN_ - "Yea, the stars of heaven"] The Hebrew poets, to express happiness, prosperity, the instauration and advancement of states, kingdoms, and potentates, m...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR THE STARS OF HEAVEN - This verse cannot be understood literally, but is a metaphorical representation of the calamities that were coming upon Babylon The meaning of the figure evidently is, that t...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. THE JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS AND THE FUTURE DAY OF JEHOVAH (13-27) CHAPTER 13 The Burden of Babylon 1. _Jehovah's call to the judgment of Babylon (Isaiah 13:1)_ 2. _The day of Jehovah: When Babylo...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 13:1 TO ISAIAH 14:23. THE UTTER RUIN OF BABYLON AND TRIUMPHAL ODE OVER HER MONARCH'S DEATH. Historical conditions are here presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The subjec...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SHALL NOT GIVE THEIR LIGHT. Quoted in Matthew 24:29. Shall not celebrate [Thee]. Compare Psalms 19:1; Psalms 145:10. Hebrew. _halel._ Occurs twice in "former" portion (here and in...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The middle division of the prophecy enlarges on the nature, purpose and effects of this day of Jehovah....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    "The day of the Lord is darkness, and not light," Amos 5:18. _the constellations thereof_ The Heb. word (_kěsîl_) is used in the singular in Amos 5:8; Job 9:9; Job 38:31, o

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BEHOLD, THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH, &C.— The prophet begins here to describe the calamity itself coming upon the Babylonians, but in figures, according to his manner, grand, and adapted to raise a ter...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    b. PURPOSE OF JUDGMENT TEXT: Isaiah 13:9-16 9 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. 10...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. THE STARS ... SHALL...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. BURDEN] The corresponding verb means 'to lift up' (_a_) a load, (_b_) the voice (cp. Isaiah 3:7; Isaiah 42:2; Isaiah 42:11), used of Balaam lifting up his voice in oracular utterance ...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The day of Jehovah is accompanied by signs in the heavens as in Joel 2:10; Joel 2:31; Joel 3:15; Zephaniah 1:14;...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 13 The next major division of the Book of Isaiah is Chapter s 13 to...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Isaiah uses pictures in words to describe how total is the effect of God’s action. The darkness will be extraordinary because no light whatever reaches the world from the stars. Or from the sun, or fr...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE CONSTELLATIONS THEREOF. — The noun in the singular (_kesîl,_ foolhardy, or impious) is translated as Orion in Job 9:9; Amos 5:8. It is significant, as pointing to some widely-diffused legend, that...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּֽי ־כֹוכְבֵ֤י הַ שָּׁמַ֨יִם֙ וּ כְסִ֣ילֵיהֶ֔ם...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that - we...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    We now commence the second circle of the first division of our book, in which are contained Isaiah's prophecies concerning the nations and the world. The first describes the doom of Babylon. Whereas t...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For the (h) stars of heaven and its constellations shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. (h) They who are overcome...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    In the figurative language of prophecy, the Lord describes the destruction of Babylon. The army that shall come against Babylon, the Lord calls his sanctified ones, and his mighty ones. By sanctified,...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    10._For the stars of heaven. _In order to strike our minds with a stronger and more distressing fear of the judgment of God, the prophets are accustomed to add to their threatenings extravagant modes...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. With chapter 12 one division of the whole book closes. That which commences with chapter 13 continues to the end of chapter 27, which describes th...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR THE STARS OF HEAVEN,.... This and what follows are to be understood, not literally, but figuratively, as expressive of the dismalness and gloominess of the dispensation, of the horror and terror o...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. Ver. 10. _For the sta...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Behold the day cruel both with wrath and fierce anger_ Dr. Waterland renders the clause, _fierceness, wrath, and hot anger:_ divers words are heaped together, to signify the extremity of the divine i...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPHECIES OF WRATH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light, the figure of utter darkness pointing to the severity of the punishment; THE SUN SHALL BE DARKENED IN HIS GOING FORTH...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-18 We have here the terrible desolation of Babylon by the Medes and Persians. Those who in the day of their peace were proud, and haughty, and terrible, are quite dispirited when trouble comes. The...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE CONSTELLATIONS; which consist of many stars, and therefore give a greater light. THE SUN SHALL BE DARKENED; either, 1. Properly and really, by an eclipse; for prodigies in heaven do sometimes go...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 13:10 stars H3556 heaven H8064 constellations H3685 give H1984 (H8686) light H216 sun H8121 darkened H2821 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE APOCALYPTIC DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON (ISAIAH 13:6). The forces having been gathered by Yahweh on the remoteness of the bare mountain, they are to be unleashed in ‘the Day of Yahweh', and it will se...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecy concerning last days, when punishment will be visited upon the nations, and Israel shall pass through the Great Tribulation. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Men have their da...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    In the thirteen Chapter s which follow, the prophet, like a watchman, raises his voice, and denounces woes against all the surrounding nations, and finally against his own country. Isaiah 13:1. _The b...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 13:1 God’s Judgment and Grace for the World: “We Have a Strong City.” Isaiah stresses God’s complete power over all the nations. God rules history to achieve his goals....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE BURDEN OF BABYLON. The series of prophecies which commences with this chapter and continues to the close of Isaiah 23:1; is connected together by the word _massa_, burden. It has been a...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now as we move into chapter 13 and he speaks of the burden of Babylon which Isaiah saw, you remember that we mentioned when we started the prophecy of Isaiah that in many of the prophecies, there was...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 8:10; Amos 8:9; Ezekiel 32:7; Ezekiel 32:8; Isaiah 24:21;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Constellations — Which consist of many stars, and therefore give a greater sight. Darkened — All things shall look darkly and dismally; men shall have no comfort or hope. Going forth — As soon as he r...

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