Isaiah 13:11

Pride Judgment Sin

⁹ Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming— cruel, with fury and burning anger— to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.

¹⁰ For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.

I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.

¹² I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.

¹³ Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts on the day of His burning anger.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
KJV: And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
WEB: I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.
ASV: And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
DARBY: And I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will make the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will bring low the haughtiness of the violent.
BLB: And I will visit punishment upon the world [for] evil, and upon the wicked [for] their iniquity, and I will make cease the arrogance of the proud ones, and the haughtiness of the ruthless ones I will lay low.

ÅB: Jeg vil hjemsøke jorden for dens ondskap og de ugudelige for deres misgjerning, og jeg vil gjøre ende på de overmodiges stolthet og kue voldsmenns tross.
OTB: Jeg vil straffe verden for dens ondskap, og de ugudelige for deres misgjerning. Jeg vil sette en stopper for de stoltes arroganse og ydmyke de nådeløses hovmod.
B1930: Jeg vil hjemsøke jorden for dens ondskap og de ugudelige for deres misgjerning, og jeg vil gjøre ende på de overmodiges stolthet og kue voldsmenns tross.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 2:11
The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
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Isaiah 5:15
So mankind will be brought low, and each man humbled; the arrogant will lower their eyes.
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Jeremiah 50:29–32
Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
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Daniel 5:22–23
But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this.
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Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
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Isaiah 14:12–16
How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
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Isaiah 11:4
but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.
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Isaiah 24:4–6
The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and fades; the exalted of the earth waste away.
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