John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 13:9
Behold, the day of the Lord cometh ,.... Or "is come" F5 בא "venit", Piscator; "veniens", Montanus. ; said in Isaiah 13:6 to be at hand, but now it is represented in prophecy as already come: cruel both with wrath and fierce anger ; which, whether referred to "the Lord", or to "the day", the sense is the same; the day may be said to be cruel, and full of wrath and fury, because of the severity and fierceness of the Lord's anger, exercised upon the Babylonians in it; and he may... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 13:8
And they shall be afraid ,.... Troubled, dismayed, frightened, at the sudden taking of the city, and at the sight of Cyrus's troops marching up into the very heart of it, and to the king's palace: pangs and sorrow shall take hold of them ; as convulsions, pains in the bowels, &c.; more fully explained in the next clause: they shall be in pain, as a woman that travaileth ; that is in labour, and ready to bring forth her child, whose pains are very sharp, and agonies great; the... read more