I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.
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I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.
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And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
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And I will visit upon the world their evil, and upon the wicked their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the tyrants.
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Passages linked to Isaiah 13:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 2:11 The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the arrogance of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
- Isaiah 5:15 So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
- Jeremiah 50:29-32 “Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp against her all around. Let none of it escape. Pay her back according to her work. According to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel. Therefore her young men will fall in her streets. All her men of war will be brought to silence in that day,” says Yahweh. “Behold, I am against you, you proud one,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies; “for your day has come, the time that I will visit you. The proud one will stumble and fall, and no one will raise him up. I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all who are around him.”
- Daniel 5:22-23 “You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this, but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.
- Isaiah 2:17 The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
- Isaiah 3:11 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.
- Isaiah 11:4 but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
- Isaiah 14:12-16 How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north! I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!” Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit. Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,
- Isaiah 14:21 Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.
- Isaiah 24:4-6 The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish. The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.
- Isaiah 26:21 For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
- Jeremiah 51:34-38 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out. May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!” the inhabitant of Zion will say; and, “May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!” will Jerusalem say. Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry. Babylon will become heaps, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant. They will roar together like young lions. They will growl as lions’ cubs.
- Revelation 12:9-10 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ has come; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.
- Revelation 18:2-3 He cried with a mighty voice, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and she has become a habitation of demons, a prison of every unclean spirit, and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird! For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain He compareth Babylon to the whole world, because they…
He compareth Babylon to the whole world, because they so esteemed themselves by reason of their great empire.
He noteth the principal vice, whereunto they are most given, as are all that abound in wealth.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Isa 13:11 And I will punish the world for…
Isa 13:11 And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Ver. 11. And I will punish the world.] That is, the Chaldean state; for they reckoned themselves κοσμοκρατορας, or lords of the world. See on Isa 13:5. Or to show that, if the whole world should conspire against the Lord, he can as easily punish them as he did that rabble of rebels the old world. See Dan 4:17.
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And lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.] Or, Of the roysters or tyrants.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The world; the Babylonish empire, which is called the…
The world; the Babylonish empire, which is called the world, as the Roman empire afterward was, Luk 2:1, because it was extended to a great part of the world, and because it was vastly populous, and Babylon itself looked more like a world than one city.
Of the terrible; of them who formerly were very terrible for their great power and cruelty.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And I will punish the world for their evil,....…
And I will punish the world for their evil,.... Not the whole world, but the kingdom of Babylon, so called because of its large extent, and the number of its inhabitants, just as the Roman empire is called the whole world, Luk 2:1 "evil" may be meant, either of the evil of sin, which was the cause of punishment, or else of the evil of punishment itself; and the sense be this, I will visit, or, in a way of visitation, I will bring evil, or evils, upon the world; so the Targum,
and the wicked for their iniquity, or "on the wicked their iniquity"; that is, I will visit on them, or inflict upon them, the punishment of their iniquity; meaning the notorious and abandoned sinners among them, see Isa 13:9,
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and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and I will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible: such as Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar, famous for their pride, arrogance, and haughtiness, tyranny and oppression, whereby they became terrible to others.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The world - The Babylonish empire, which is called…
The world - The Babylonish empire, which is called the world, as the Roman empire afterwards was, because it was extended to a great part of the world.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 11. I will punish the world - "I…
Verse 11. I will punish the world - "I will visit the world"] That is, the Babylonish empire; as η οικουμενη, for the Roman empire, or for Judea, Lu 2:1; Ac 11:28. So the universus orbis Romanus, for the Roman empire; Salvian. lib. v. Minos calls Crete his world: "Creten, quae meus est orbis," Ovid. Metamorph. viii. 9.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Isa 13:11-16. I will punish the world — The…
Isa 13:11-16. I will punish the world — The Babylonish empire, which is called the world, as the Roman empire afterward was, (Luk 2:1,) because it was extended to a great part of the world, and because it was very populous, and Babylon itself looked more like a world than one city. I will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible — Of them who formerly were very terrible for their great power and cruelty. I will make a man more precious, &c. — The city and nation shall be so depopulated, that few men shall be left in it. I will shake the heavens, &c. — A poetical and prophetical description of great confusions and terrors, as if heaven and earth were about to meet together. And it shall be as the chased roe — That Babylon, which used to be like a roaring lion and a raging bear to all about her, shall become like the timid, frighted roe, pursued by the hunter, and as a sheep which no man taketh up — In a most forlorn and neglected condition. And the army they shall bring into the field, consisting of troops from divers nations, as great armies usually do, shall be so dispirited by their own fears, and so dispersed by their enemies’ sword, that they shall turn every man to his own people — Shall each shift for his own safety. Or the prophet may refer to those inhabitants of Babylon who were originally of different nations, but had settled there: as many of these, he signifies, as can, shall flee out of it, and endeavour to escape to their own countries. Every one that is found — In Babylon, at the taking of it; shall fall by the sword — The fear of which shall make them flee away with all speed. Their children also shall be dashed, &c. — As a just recompense for the like cruelty acted by them upon the Jews, 2Ch 36:17, which was also foretold Psa 137:9.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain And I will punish the world - By the…
And I will punish the world - By the ‘world’ here is evidently meant the Babylonian empire, in the same way as ‘all the world’ in Luk 2:1, means Judea; and in Act 11:28, means the Roman empire. Babylonia, or Chaldea, was the most mighty empire then on earth, and might be said to comprehend the whole world.
And I will cause the arrogancy - This was the prevailing sin of Babylon, and it was on account of this pride mainly that it was overthrown (see the notes at Isa. 14; notes at Isa 47:1-7; compare Dan 4:22, Dan 4:30).
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain World. The vices of all nations were concentrated at…
World. The vices of all nations were concentrated at Babylon. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain world--the impious of the world (compare Isa 11:4).
world--the impious of the world (compare Isa 11:4).
arrogancy--Babylon's besetting sin (Dan 4:22, Dan 4:30).
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the terrible--rather, tyrants [HORSLEY].
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 11, 12. Punish the world — The Babylonian world,…
11, 12. Punish the world — The Babylonian world, the symbol (Isa_13:5) of all resisting human wills and kingdoms of the earth hostile to God. Here the prophet, as afterward elsewhere, resolves his figures into literal expressions. Isa_1:22; Isa_11:9.
Arrogancy — Babylon’s prevailing sin.
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The terrible — Tyrants and oppressors.
Make a man more precious — More scarce or rare than fine gold.
Than the… wedge of Ophir — “Wedge,” כתם, (kethem,) properly means “gold” — Ophir’s gold. For the probable location of “Ophir,” see notes on 1Ki_9:28; 1Ki_10:11. But the main point of the text is the scarcity of man, weak and frail, אנושׁ, (Enosh,) and man אדם, (Adam,) men of the common origin. Both words would seem to include man exhaustively. Babylon’s defenders shall be so cut off that a single man will be more scarce than the finest gold. This is the common explanation. But Kay (Bible Commentary) hints another meaning. It is in substance this: “I will make a man,” the lowly man, in comparison with the “haughty,” “arrogant,” “the terrible ones,” of more consequence to me in caring, providing, etc., for him (Psalm viii) than the choicest gold. The lowly man, the man formed out of the dust, is the holy man of my “remnant” preserved in Babylon to be returned to Jerusalem. He shall be kept safe amid the terrible judgments upon Babylon by the army of Cyrus. This seems far-fetched, yet it has some plausibility.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11, 12. Jehovah is again the speaker, as in…
11, 12. Jehovah is again the speaker, as in Isa_13:3. The prophet has already in Isa_13:9 intimated the purpose of the judgment; here the thought is added that in its execution the existing generation will be all but exterminated; so wide-spread is the wickedness and tyranny of the world.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain I will punish the world for their evil. Here…
I will punish the world for their evil. Here the prophecy certainly goes beyond the destruction of Babylon, and becomes a general warning to the wicked of all court-tries. Each country is to feel that its turn will come. Punishment will fall especially on the unjust, the proud, and the haughty. (comp. Isa_1:28 Isa_2:11-17, etc.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Connecting Statement:
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Yahweh continues to talk about what he will do on the day of Yahweh.
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the world
This refers to people. AT: "the people of the world" (See: Metonymy)
the wicked ... the proud ... the ruthless
These phrases refer to people who have these qualities. AT: "wicked people ... proud people ... ruthless people" (See: Nominal Adjectives)
the ruthless
"cruel people"
will bring down the arrogance of the ruthless
Being low often represents being humble. Bringing down people's arrogance represents making them humble. AT: "will humble the ruthless" (See: Metaphor)
I will make men more rare than fine gold
Why there will be so few people can be stated clearly. AT: "I will cause so many people to die that living people will be more rare than fine gold" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
men more rare than fine gold ... mankind harder to find than the pure gold of Ophir
These two phrases mean basically the same thing. (See: Parallelism)
pure gold of Ophir
Ophir was the name of a place where there was pure gold. (See: How to Translate Names)
translationWords
punish
world
evil
iniquity
arrogant
proud
gold
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 13:11 punish the world: See Rev 20:11.
13:11 punish the world: See Rev 20:11.
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