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The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 13:13

I will shake the heavens (comp. Joel 3:16 ; Haggai 2:7 ; Matthew 24:29 ). In general, this sign is mentioned in connection with the end of the world, when a "new heaven and a new earth" are to supersede the old ( Isaiah 65:17 ; Isaiah 66:22 ; Revelation 21:1 ). Isaiah may, perhaps, pass here from signs connected with the fall of Babylon to those which will announce the last day—each "day of the Lord" being, as already observed, a type of the final and great day (see the comment... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 13:12

I will make a man ... - I will so cut off and destroy the men of Babylon, that a single man to defend the city will be more rare and valuable than fine gold. The expression indicates that there would be a great slaughter of the people of Babylon.Than fine gold - Pure, unalloyed gold. The word used here (פז pâz) is often distinguished from common gold Psalms 19:11; Psalms 119:127; Proverbs 8:19.Than the golden wedge of Ophir - The word (כתם kethem) rendered ‘wedge’ means properly “gold;” yellow... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 13:13

Therefore I will shake the heavens - A strong, but common figure of speech in the Scriptures, to denote great commotions, judgments, and revolutions. The figure is taken from the image of a furious storm and tempest, when the sky, the clouds, the heavens, appear to be in commotion; compare 1 Samuel 22:8 :Then the earth shook and trembled,The foundation of heaven moved and shook,Because he was wroth.See also Isaiah 24:19-20; Haggai 2:6-7.And the earth shall remove out of her place - A common... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 13:11-16

Isaiah 13:11-16. I will punish the world The Babylonish empire, which is called the world, as the Roman empire afterward was, (Luke 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... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 13:1-22

13:1-23:18 MESSAGES FOR VARIOUS NATIONSAll the nations are under the rule of God, who controls their rise to power and their final destruction according to his purposes. This is the truth that the prophet teaches in the collection of prophecies against various nations in Chapters 13 to 23. The first message is for Babylon, which in Isaiah’s day had not yet risen to a position of international power. The fall of Babylon that is pictured in these chapters would not take place for more than one... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 13:12

man. Hebrew. adam . App-14 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 13:12

"I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir. Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land. Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and everyone that is taken... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 13:9-12

Isaiah 13:9-12. Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, &c.— The prophet begins here to describe the calamity itself coming upon the Babylonians, but in figures, according to his manner, grand, and adapted to raise a terrible image of that calamity. We have the proposition in the ninth verse, and the enarration of it in the three following. The proposition contains both a confirmation of the approach of the day of the Lord, and a general idea of its sorrowful attributes. The first is set forth... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 13:13-16

Isaiah 13:13-16. Therefore I will shake the heavens— Every one who reads and compares these words with those preceding, must observe, that they contain an explanation of what the prophet had said concerning the mighty storm to be raised against the Babylonians; so that here the same subject is continued and amplified. The same figure is employed in the 13th verse, setting forth the manifestation of the divine justice as the cause of the calamity, the effects of which are related in the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 13:12

12. man . . . precious—I will so cut off Babylon's defenders, that a single man shall be as rare and precious as the finest gold. read more