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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Isaiah 13:6

Howl ye, in consternation and terror; for the day of the Lord is at hand, when He intends to carry out His judgment; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty, all the enemies being included in this threat and all opposition being declared useless from the start.

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See also Isaiah 13:6 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HOWL YE - Ye inhabitants of Babylon, in view of the approaching destruction. THE DAY OF THE LORD - The time when Yahweh will inflict vengeance on you draws near (see the note at Isaiah 2:12; compare...

  • 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

    THE DAY. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), for the events (or judgments) which shall take place in it. DAY OF THE LORD.. See note on Isaiah 2:12. Occurs in fifteen other places in O.T.:...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The verse is almost identical with Joel 1:15. On the "day of Jehovah" see on ch. Isaiah 2:12. _as a destruction from the Almighty_ The Heb. phrase contains an alliteration which cannot be easily repro...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    HOWL YE, &C.— We have here, in this latter member of the first part of the discourse, a premonition to the Babylonians concerning their approaching calamity; Isaiah 13:6. _Secondly,_ the effects of th...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    III. PEOPLE AND PAGANS - Chapter S 13 - 23 A. IMPLACABLE EMPIRE CH. 13-14 CHAPTER THIRTEEN 1. BABYLON a. PREDICTION OF JUDGMENT TEXT: Isaiah 13:1-8 1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND - the day of His vengeance on Babylon (Isaiah 2:12). Type of the futur...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    13:6 Almighty. (k-16) There is an assonance in 'destruction' and 'Almighty.' _ Shod_ , _ Shaddai_ ; the same in Joel 1:15 ....

  • 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 ALMIGHTY] Heb. _Shaddai,_ a name of God frequent in the Pentateuch, and belong-to the pre-Mosaic revelation (Exodus 6:3); it is not often found in the prophets, and when it occurs the severe and a...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ‘The day is coming.’ On that day, people will see clearly what God is doing. His powerful deeds will impress everyone. The date is God’s secret. GOD WILL PUNISH PROUD PEOPLE V9 The day of the *Lord...

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HOWL YE; FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND. — The verse is an almost verbal reproduction of Joel 1:15. On the “day of Jehovah,” see Note on Isaiah 2:12. AS A DESTRUCTION FROM THE ALMIGHTY. — The Hebr...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֵילִ֕ילוּ כִּ֥י קָרֹ֖וב יֹ֣ום יְהוָ֑ה כְּ שׁ

  • 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

    Wail (f) ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. (f) You Babylonians....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XIII. _ Near. Though one hundred and seventy-two years distant._...

  • 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

    6._Howl ye. _He continues the same argument, and bids the inhabitants of Babylon _howl_. Not that he directs instruction to them, as if he hoped that it would be of any advantage, but, in foretelling...

  • 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

    HOWL YE, FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND,.... These words are an address to the Babylonians, who instead of rejoicing and feasting, as Belshazzar and his nobles were the night that Babylon was take...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Howl ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. Ver. 6. _Howl ye._] "For the evils that are coming upon you" (as in Jam 5:1). We may well say the same...

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

    _Howl ye_ We have here a very elegant and lively description of the terrible confusion and desolation which should be made in Babylon by the attack which the Medes and Persians should make upon it. Th...

  • 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

    IT SHALL COME AS A DESTRUCTION; or rather, a destruction or devastation shall come, as the LXX. and vulgar Latin render it. For this was not AS A DESTRUCTION, but was a destruction indeed. And the par...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 13:6 Wail H3213 (H8685) day H3117 LORD H3068 hand H7138 come H935 (H8799) destruction H7701 Almighty...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 13:5 As the esv footnote explains, THE WHOLE LAND can also be translated “the whole earth” (likewise v. Isaiah 13:9

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE DAY OF THE LORD Isaiah 13:6. _Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand_. Sad and unnatural is the condition of those to whom the coming of “the day of the Lord” is a cause for dismay. But this...

  • 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

    1 Thessalonians 5:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Amos 5:18; Ezekiel 21:12;...

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