Isaiah 13:6

Contemporary English Version

Cry and weep! The day is coming when the mighty Lord will bring destruction.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Wail! For the day of the Lord is near.It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Hebrew Names Version
Wail; for the day of the LORD is at hand; as destruction from Shaddai shall it come.

King James Version
Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

English Standard Version
Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!

New American Standard Bible
Wail, for the day of the LORD is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

New Century Version
Cry, because the Lord 's day of judging is near; the Almighty is sending destruction.

Amplified Bible
Wail, for the day of the LORD is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty (All Sufficient One—Invincible God)!

World English Bible
Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Howle you, for the day of the Lorde is at hande: it shall come as a destroier from the Almightie.

Legacy Standard Bible
Wail, for the day of Yahweh is near!It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Berean Standard Bible
Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Complete Jewish Bible
Howl! for the Day of Adonai is at hand, destruction coming from Shaddai.

Darby Translation
Howl, for the day of Jehovah is at hand; it cometh as destruction from the Almighty.

Easy-to-Read Version
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.

George Lamsa Translation
Howl; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a plunder which is made suddenly.

Good News Translation
Howl in pain! The day of the Lord is near, the day when the Almighty brings destruction.

Lexham English Bible
Wail, for the day of Yahweh is near; it will come like destruction from Shaddai!

Literal Translation
Howl! For the day of Jehovah is at hand. It shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Mourne therfore, for the daye of the LORDE is at honde, and commeth as a destroyer from ye allmighty.

American Standard Version
Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Bible in Basic English
Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

King James Version (1611)
Howle yee; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Mourne ye, for the day of the Lord is at hande, and shall come as a destroyer from the almightie.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near, and destruction from God shall arrive.

English Revised Version
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Yelle ye, for the dai of the Lord is niy; as wastyng it schal come of the Lord.

Update Bible Version
Wail; for the day of Yahweh is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty it shall come.

Webster's Bible Translation
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

New English Translation
Wail, for the Lord 's day of judgment is near; it comes with all the destructive power of the sovereign Judge.

New King James Version
Wail, for the day of the LORD is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

New Living Translation
Scream in terror, for the day of the Lord has arrived— the time for the Almighty to destroy.

New Life Bible
Cry out in sorrow, for the day of the Lord is near! It will come as a destroying power from the All-powerful.

New Revised Standard
Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Howl ye! for at hand is the day of Yahweh, - As a veritable destruction from the Almighty, shall it come.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it shall come as a destruction from the Lord.

Revised Standard Version
Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!

Young's Literal Translation
Howl ye, for near [is] the day of Jehovah, As destruction from the Mighty it cometh.

THE MESSAGE
Wail! God 's Day of Judgment is near— an avalanche crashing down from the Strong God! Everyone paralyzed in the panic, hysterical and unstrung, Doubled up in pain like a woman giving birth to a baby. Horrified—everyone they see is like a face out of a nightmare.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Wail, for the day of the LORD is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Contextual Overview

⁶ Cry and weep! The day is coming when the mighty Lord will bring destruction. ⁷ All people will be terrified. Hands will grow limp; courage will melt away. ⁸ Everyone will tremble with pain like a woman giving birth; they will stare at each other with horror on their faces. ⁹ I, the Lord , will show no mercy or pity when that time comes. In my anger I will destroy the earth and every sinner who lives on it. ¹⁰ Light will disappear from the stars in the sky; the dawning sun will turn dark, and the moon will lose its glow. ¹¹ I will punish this evil world and its people because of their sins. I will crush the horrible pride of those who are cruel. ¹² Survivors will be harder to find than the purest gold. ¹³ I, the Lord All-Powerful, am terribly angry— I will make the sky tremble and the earth shake loose. ¹⁴ Everyone will run to their homelands, just as hunted deer run, and sheep scatter when they have no shepherd. ¹⁵ Those who are captured will be killed by a sword.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Howl ye: Isaiah 14:31, Isaiah 23:1, Isaiah 52:5, Isaiah 65:14, Jeremiah 25:34, Jeremiah 49:3, Jeremiah 51:8, Ezekiel 21:12, Ezekiel 30:2, Joel 1:5, Joel 1:11, Joel 1:13, Zephaniah 1:14, James 5:1, Revelation 18:10

for the day: Isaiah 13:9, Isaiah 34:8, Ezekiel 30:3, Joel 2:11, Joel 2:31, Amos 5:18, Zephaniah 1:7, Zephaniah 2:2, Zephaniah 2:3, Malachi 4:5, 1 Thessalonians 5:2, 1 Thessalonians 5:3

as a: Job 31:23, Joel 1:15

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:23 - shall destroy Joshua 5:1 - neither was Psalms 48:6 - Fear Psalms 76:12 - terrible Isaiah 2:12 - the day Jeremiah 4:8 - howl Jeremiah 4:20 - upon destruction Jeremiah 16:15 - that brought Jeremiah 30:6 - every Jeremiah 46:10 - the day Jeremiah 50:3 - which Jeremiah 50:43 - king Jeremiah 51:54 - General Ezekiel 13:5 - the day Daniel 5:9 - changed Nahum 3:10 - her young Zechariah 14:1 - General Revelation 4:8 - Lord God Almighty Revelation 6:17 - the great Revelation 22:10 - for

Cross-References

Genesis 13:6
At this time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the same area, and so there wasn't enough pastureland left for Abram and Lot with all of their animals. Besides this, the men who took care of Abram's animals and the ones who took care of Lot's animals started quarreling.

Genesis 13:10
This happened before the Lord had destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. And when Lot looked around, he saw there was plenty of water in the Jordan Valley. All the way to Zoar the valley was as green as the garden of the Lord or the land of Egypt.

Genesis 13:11
So Lot chose the whole Jordan Valley for himself, and as he started toward the east, he and Abram separated.

Genesis 13:17
Now walk back and forth across the land, because I am giving it to you.

Genesis 13:18
Abram took down his tents and went to live near the sacred trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar in honor of the Lord .

1 Timothy 6:9
People who want to be rich fall into all sorts of temptations and traps. They are caught by foolish and harmful desires that drag them down and destroy them.

Gill's Notes on the 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 taken, had reason to howl and lament; seeing the day that the Lord had fixed for their destruction was very near, and he was just about to come forth as a judge to take vengeance on them; for though it was about two hundred and fifty years from the time of this prophecy, to the taking of Babylon, yet it is represented as at hand, to show the certainty of it, both for the comfort of the Jewish captives, when they should be in it, and for the awakening of the sluggish inhabitants, who were secure, and thought themselves out of danger:

it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty: suddenly, swiftly, and irresistibly: there is a beautiful paronomasia in the Hebrew text, "ceshod mishaddai" c; as destruction from the destroyer; from God, who is able to save, and to destroy; he is almighty and all sufficient, so some render the word; the hand of God was visible in it.

c כשוד משדי.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Isaiah 13:9).

As a destruction from the Almighty - Not as a desolation from man, but as destruction sent from him who has all power in heaven and on earth. Destruction meditated by man might be resisted; but destruction that should come from the Almighty must be final and irresistible. The word ‘Almighty’ שׁדי shadday, one of the names given to God in the Scriptures, denotes, properly, “one who is mighty,” or who has all power; and is correctly rendered Almighty, or Omnipotent; Genesis 17:1; Genesis 28:3; Genesis 48:3; Exodus 6:3; Ruth 1:20; Job 5:17; Job 6:4, Job 6:14; Job 8:3, Job 8:5; Job 11:7; Job 13:4; Job 15:25. In the Hebrew here, there is a paronomasia or “pun” - a figure of speech quite common in the Scriptures, which cannot be retained in the translation - ‘It shall come as a destruction (כשׁד k^eshod) from the Almighty (משׁדי mı̂shadday).’