Isa 13:3, Jer 6:4, 12:3 | Geneva | STEP | I have commanded my {c} sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, [even] them that rejoice in my {d} highness. (c) That is, prepared and appointed to execute my judgments. (d) Who willingly go about to the work to which I appoint them, but how the wicked do this, read .

Isaiah 13:3

I have commanded my {c} sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, [even] them that rejoice in my {d} highness.

(c) That is, prepared and appointed to execute my judgments. (d) Who willingly go about to the work to which I appoint them, but how the wicked do this, read Isa 10:6.

Jeremiah 6:4

{f} Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! for the day departeth, for the shadows of the evening are lengthened.

(f) He speaks this in the person of the Babylonians, who complain that the time fails them before they have brought their enterprises to pass.

Jeremiah 12:3

But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and {d} prepare them for the day of slaughter.

(d) The Hebrew word is "sanctify them", meaning that God would be sanctified in the destruction of the wicked to whom God for a while gives prosperity, that afterward they would the more feel his heavy judgment when they lack their riches which were a sign of his mercy.