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Isaiah 13:13

Isaiah 13:13

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

I will shake the heavens (comp. ; ; ). In general, this sign is mentioned in connection with the end of the world, when a "new heaven and a new earth" are to supersede the old (; ; ).

Isaiah may, perhaps, pass here from signs connected with the fall of Babylon to those which will announce the last day—each "day of the Lord" being, as already observed, a type of the final and great day (see the comment on verse 6).

Or, possibly, the allusion may be to some "shaking" by God of a supra-mundane kingdom as preliminary to his passing judgment on Babylon (so Dr. Kay; comp. ).

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