Yesaya 13:9

13:9 Look, the Lord’s day of judgment ¹  is coming;

it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger, ² 

destroying ³  the earth ⁴ 

and annihilating its sinners.

Yesaya 56:2

56:2 The people who do this will be blessed, ⁵ 

the people who commit themselves to obedience, ⁶ 

who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it,

who refrain from doing anything that is wrong. ⁷ 

[13:9]  ¹ tn Heb “the day of the Lord.”

[13:9]  ² tn Heb “[with] cruelty, and fury, and rage of anger.” Three synonyms for “anger” are piled up at the end of the line to emphasize the extraordinary degree of divine anger that will be exhibited in this judgment.

[13:9]  ³ tn Heb “making desolate.”

[13:9]  ⁴ tn Or “land” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT).

[56:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “blessed is the man who does this.”

[56:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “the son of mankind who takes hold of it.”

[56:2]  ⁷ tn Heb and who keeps his hand from doing any evil.”