Holy Scripture
Isaiah 13:6
A church father on this verse
“(Vers. 5, 6.) How has the tax collector ceased, the tribute rested? The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked: the rod of the rulers, smiting the people in wrath, with an incurable plague, subjecting the nations in fury, persecuting cruelly. In the Epistle of Peter we read: The time has come for judgment to begin at…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
6Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near, and destruction from God shall arrive.
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In context
4A voice of many nations on the mountains, even like to that of many nations; a voice of kings and nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts has given command to a warlike nation,
5to come from a land afar off, from the utmost foundation of heaven; the Lord and his warriors are coming to destroy all the world.
— Isaiah 13:6 —
7Therefore every hand shall become powerless, and every soul of man shall be dismayed.
8The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in travail: and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame.