Isaiah 5:9

5:9 The Lord who commands armies told me this: ¹ 

“Many houses will certainly become desolate,

large, impressive houses will have no one living in them. ² 

Isaiah 13:9

13:9 Look, the Lord’s day of judgment ³  is coming;

it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger, ⁴ 

destroying ⁵  the earth ⁶ 

and annihilating its sinners.

[5:9]  ¹ tn Heb “in my ears, the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts].”

[5:9]  ² tn Heb “great and good [houses], without a resident.”

[13:9]  ³ tn Heb “the day of the Lord.”

[13:9]  ⁴ tn Heb “[with] cruelty, and fury, and rage of anger.” Three synonyms for “anger” are piled up at the end of the line to emphasize the extraordinary degree of divine anger that will be exhibited in this judgment.

[13:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “making desolate.”

[13:9]  ⁶ tn Or “land” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT).