OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 13:9

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Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.

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Verse 9. Desolate. This was effected in the course of many centuries. Calmet.—The building of Seleucia caused Babylon to be deserted. Pliny vi. 27.—Hence we know not at present where it was situated.

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