Discovery BoxIsaiah 13:9 
Context13:9 Look, the Lord’s day of judgment 1 is coming;
it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger, 2
and annihilating its sinners.
Isaiah 48:9
Context48:9 For the sake of my reputation 5 I hold back my anger;
for the sake of my prestige 6 I restrain myself from destroying you. 7
1 tn Heb “the day of the Lord.”
2 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.
3 tn Heb “making desolate.”
4 tn Or “land” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NLT).
5 tn Heb “for the sake of my name” (so NAB, NASB); NLT “for my own sake.”
6 tn Heb “and my praise.” לְמַעַן (lÿma’an, “for the sake of”) is understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line).
7 tn Heb “I restrain [myself] concerning you not to cut you off.”
