Isaiah 66:6
Hebrew Text— Isaiah 66:6A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that repays his enemies what they deserve.
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“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense.
Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”
For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come.
I trod down the peoples in my anger and made them drunk in my wrath. I poured their lifeblood out on the earth.”
Yahweh will roar from Zion, and thunder from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will shake; but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
Be silent at the presence of the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh is at hand. For Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice. He has consecrated his guests.
When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
Out of the throne proceed lightnings, sounds, and thunders. There were seven lamps of fire burning before his throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”
Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.
“Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment.
to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
All the nations will serve him, his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land comes. Then many nations and great kings will make him their bondservant.
For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they will set themselves in array against her. She will be taken from there. Their arrows will be as of an expert mighty man. None of them will return in vain.
Shout against her all around. She has submitted herself. Her bulwarks have fallen. Her walls have been thrown down, for it is the vengeance of Yahweh. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, do to her.
He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, “Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” He went in as I watched.
They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.
Yahweh thunders his voice before his army; for his forces are very great; for he is strong who obeys his command; for the day of Yahweh is great and very awesome, and who can endure it?
He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard that, they said, “May that never be!”
God’s temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.
then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.
and repays those who hate him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack to him who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.
He draws it out, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him.
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”
Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine out.
Wail, for Yahweh’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.
Yahweh will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.
For Yahweh will execute judgment by fire and by his sword on all flesh; and those slain by Yahweh will be many.
How long will the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? Because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals and birds are consumed; because they said, “He won’t see our latter end.”
“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
“Therefore prophesy against them all these words, and tell them, “ ‘Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation. He will mightily roar against his fold. He will give a shout, as those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.
“How can you be quiet, since Yahweh has given you a command? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there has he appointed it.”
“Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
“Set up a standard in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations against her! Call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz! Appoint a marshal against her! Cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm!
The time has come! The day draws near. Don’t let the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is on all its multitude.
Tell them therefore, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I will make this proverb to cease, and they will no more use it as a proverb in Israel;” ’ but tell them, ‘ “The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.
He brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.
“Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.
Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.
“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, but they added to the calamity.”
Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will take vengeance on his adversaries, and will make atonement for his land and for his people.
For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
If a man doesn’t repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.
In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.
You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.
To him who rides on the heaven of heavens, which are of old; behold, he utters his voice, a mighty voice.
You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was silent,
He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth.
But our God is in the heavens. He does whatever he pleases.
In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.
In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
Behold, their valiant ones cry outside; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; he will repay the islands their due.
Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?
The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, of evil, and of pestilence.
Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it. It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he will be saved out of it.
For that day is of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself of his adversaries. The sword will devour and be satiated, and will drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
For the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon. Her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces, for Yahweh is a God of retribution. He will surely repay.
“ ‘Thus my anger will be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I will be comforted. They will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath on them.
They will recompense your lewdness on you, and you will bear the sins of your idols. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
For the day is near, even Yahweh’s day is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.
Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?
The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’
Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges. Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he maintains wrath against his enemies.
But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him!”
She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.
For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.
For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
He cried with a loud voice, as a lion roars. When he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices.
“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”
for his judgments are true and righteous. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.”
“Behold, I come quickly. My reward is with me, to repay to each man according to his work.
if I sharpen my glittering sword, my hand grasps it in judgment; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me.
Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:
Yahweh’s voice is powerful. Yahweh’s voice is full of majesty.
For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
For many nations and great kings will make bondservants of them, even of them. I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.”
“I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,” says Yahweh.
I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me.
He said: “Yahweh will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, and the top of Carmel will wither.”
Yahweh’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.
The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.
But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’ ”
The angel took the censer, and he filled it with the fire of the altar, then threw it on the earth. Thunders, sounds, lightnings, and an earthquake followed.