Isaiah 13:10 - Exposition

The stars of heaven … shall not give their light . Nature sympathizes with her Lord. When he is angry, the light of the heavens grows dark. So it was at the crucifixion of Christ ( Matthew 27:45 ); so it will be at the end of the world ( Matthew 24:29 ). So it is often, if not always, at the time of great judgments. The constellations ; literally, the Orions . Kesil , the Fool, was the Hebrew name of the constellation of Orion, who was identified with Nimrod, the type of that impious folly which contends against God. From its application to this particular group of stars ( Job 9:9 ; Job 38:31 ; Amos 5:8 ), the word came to be applied to constellations in general. The Baby-Ionians very early marked out the sky into constellations.