Isaiah 13:14

"Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in the LORD of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger."

Key Reflection

This verse depicts a profound divine judgment where the very foundations of creation—both celestial and terrestrial—are affected by God's wrath. The shaking of the heavens and earth symbolizes the magnitude and finality of divine punishment, signaling the severity of God's anger on that day.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

And it shall be -Babylon shall be. As the chased roe -Once so proud. lofty, arrogant, and self-confident; it shall be as the trembling gazelle, or the timid deer pursued by the hunter, and panting for safety. The word (צביtsebı̂y) denotes a deer of the most delicate frame; the species that is most fleet and graceful in its movements; properly the “gazelle” (see Bochart’s “Hieroz.” i. 3. 25). ‘To hunt the antelope is a favorite amusement in the East, but which, from its extraordinary swiftness, is attended with great difficulty. On the first alarm, it flies like an arrow from the bow, and leaves the best-mounted hunter, and the fleetest dog, far behind.

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