Isa 13:9-16 | ESV | STEP | Behold , the day of the Lord comes , cruel , with wrath and fierce anger , to make the land a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it.

a[See ver. 6 above]

Isaiah 13:9-16

9 Behold, ^athe day of the Lord comes,
cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,
to make the land a desolation
and ^bto destroy its sinners from it.
10 ^cFor the stars of the heavens and their constellations
will not give their light;
^dthe sun will be dark at its rising,
and the moon will not shed its light.
11 I will punish ^ethe world for its evil,
and the wicked for their iniquity;
I will ^fput an end to the pomp of the arrogant,
^gand lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.
12 I will make ^hpeople more rare than fine gold,
and mankind than the ⁱgold of Ophir.
13 Therefore ^jI will make the heavens tremble,
and the earth will be shaken out of its place,
at the wrath of the Lord of hosts
in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And like a hunted gazelle,
or like sheep with none to gather them,
^keach will turn to his own people,
and each will flee to his own land.
15 Whoever is found will be thrust through,
and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.
16 ^lTheir infants will be dashed in pieces
before their eyes;
their houses will be plundered
and their wives ravished.