Isaiah 13:6

13:6 Wail, for the Lord’s day of judgment ¹  is near;

it comes with all the destructive power of the sovereign judge. ² 

Isaiah 15:3

15:3 In their streets they wear sackcloth;

on their roofs and in their town squares

all of them wail,

they fall down weeping.

Isaiah 65:14

65:14 Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! ³ 

But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; ⁴ 

you will wail because your spirits will be crushed. ⁵ 

[13:6]  ¹ tn Heb “the day of the Lord” (so KJV, NAB).

[13:6]  ² tn Heb “like destruction from the sovereign judge it comes.” The comparative preposition (כְּ, kÿ) has here the rhetorical nuance, “in every way like.” The point is that the destruction unleashed will have all the earmarks of divine judgment. One could paraphrase, “it comes as only destructive divine judgment can.” On this use of the preposition in general, see GKC 376 §118.x.

[65:14]  ³ tn Heb “from the good of the heart.”

[65:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “from the pain of the heart.”

[65:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “from the breaking of the spirit.”