Yes, the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, has already decided to destroy the entire land.
Parallel translations
- WEB For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will make a full end, and that determined, throughout all the earth.
- KJV For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption, even determined, in the midst of all the land.
- BSB For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land.
- NKJV For the Lord God of hosts Will make a determined end In the midst of all the land.
- NASB For a complete destruction, one that is determined, the Lord God of armies will execute in the midst of the whole land.
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Quick answer
The Lord of Armies will carry out a decisive, decreed judgment throughout the land. His purposes will be fully and certainly accomplished.
Overview
The 'full end' is the determined judgment God will bring to completion. Repeating 'the Lord, Yahweh of Armies' stresses his sovereign authority over the outcome. Together with verse 22, this passage assures that both God's judgment and his preservation of a remnant are fixed and sure.
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Cross-references · 5
- Isa 28:22Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.
- Isa 24:1–23Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
- Isa 14:26–27This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
- Rom 9:28for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth.”
- Dan 4:35All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?
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