Yesaya 44:24

The Lord Empowers Cyrus

44:24 This is what the Lord, your protector, ¹  says,

the one who formed you in the womb:

“I am the Lord, who made everything,

who alone stretched out the sky,

who fashioned the earth all by myself, ² 

Yesaya 13:9

13:9 Look, the Lord’s day of judgment ³  is coming;

it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger, ⁴ 

destroying ⁵  the earth ⁶ 

and annihilating its sinners.

[44:24]  ¹ tn Heb “your redeemer.” See the note at 41:14.

[44:24]  ² tn The consonantal text (Kethib) has “Who [was] with me?” The marginal reading (Qere) is “from with me,” i.e., “by myself.” See BDB 87 s.v. II אֵת 4.c.

[13:9]  ³ tn Heb “the day of the Lord.”

[13:9]  ⁴ 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]  ⁵ tn Heb “making desolate.”

[13:9]  ⁶ tn Or “land” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT).