Isaiah 66:16
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New International Version (©2011)
For with fire and with his sword the LORD will execute judgment on all people, and many will be those slain by the LORD.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The LORD will punish the world by fire and by his sword. He will judge the earth, and many will be killed by him.

English Standard Version (©2001)
For by fire will the LORD enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the LORD shall be many.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For the LORD will execute judgment by fire And by His sword on all flesh, And those slain by the LORD will be many.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
For the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh with His fiery sword, and many will be slain by the LORD."

International Standard Version (©2012)
For with fire and with his sword the LORD will proceed to judgment on all humanity, and those slain by the LORD will be many."

NET Bible (©2006)
For the LORD judges all humanity with fire and his sword; the LORD will kill many.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The LORD will judge with fire, and he will judge all people with his sword. Many people will be struck dead by the LORD.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

American King James Version
For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

American Standard Version
For by fire will Jehovah execute judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and the slain of Jehovah shall be many.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the Lord shall judge by fire, and by his sword unto all flesh, and the slain of the Lord shall be many.

Darby Bible Translation
For by fire and by his sword will Jehovah enter into judgment with all flesh: and the slain of Jehovah shall be many.

English Revised Version
For by fire will the LORD plead, and by his sword, with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

Webster's Bible Translation
For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.

World English Bible
For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be many.

Young's Literal Translation
For by fire and by His sword, Doth Jehovah do judgment with all flesh. And many have been Jehovah's pierced ones.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

66:15-24 A prophetic declaration is given of the Lord's vengeance on all enemies of his church, especially that of all antichristian opposers of the gospel in the latter days. Ver.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 16. - By fire and by his sword (see the introductory paragraph). The "sword of Jehovah" is spoken of also in Isaiah 27:1 and Isaiah 34:5, 6 (comp. Revelation 19:15, 21). Will the Lord plead with all flesh; rather, will the Lord judge all flesh (comp. Jeremiah 25:31, where the same phrase occurs).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For by fire, and by his sword, will the Lord plead with all flesh,.... With the Mahometans, the Turks, the Ottoman empire, against whom he will call for a sword, and will rain upon them fire and brimstone, signified by Gog and Magog, Ezekiel 38:22 and with the other antichristian powers at the battle of Armageddon; and when the fourth vial will be poured upon the sun, and men will be scorched with fire; see Revelation 16:8,

and the slain of the Lord shall be many; that is, those that will be slain by the Lord, both in the attempt of the Turks to recover the land of Canaan out of the hands of the Jews, possessed of it; whose numbers of slain will be so many, that the burying of them will last seven months, Ezekiel 39:12 and in the battle between the Christian princes, Christ at the head of them, and the antichristian armies, led on by the beast and the kings of the earth; when the fowls of the air will be invited to the great supper of the Lord, to eat the flesh of kings, captains, and mighty men, so great will the slaughter be, Revelation 19:17, see also Isaiah 11:13.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

16. Rather, "With fire will Jehovah judge, and with His sword (He will judge) all flesh." The parallelism and collocation of the Hebrew words favor this (Isa 65:12).

all flesh—that is, all who are the objects of His wrath. The godly shall be hidden by the Lord in a place of safety away from the scene of judgment (Isa 26:20, 21; Ps 31:20; 1Th 4:16, 17).

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God's Final Judgments against the Wicked
15For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. 16For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many. 17They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the middle, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, said the LORD. …

Isaiah 3:13 The LORD takes his place in court; he rises to judge the people.
Isaiah 10:4 Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
Isaiah 27:1 In that day, the LORD will punish with his sword-- his fierce, great and powerful sword-- Leviathan the gliding serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; he will slay the monster of the sea.
Isaiah 30:30 The LORD will cause people to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.
Isaiah 31:8 "Assyria will fall by no human sword; a sword, not of mortals, will devour them. They will flee before the sword and their young men will be put to forced labor.
Isaiah 65:12 I will destine you for the sword, and all of you will fall in the slaughter; for I called but you did not answer, I spoke but you did not listen. You did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me."
Jeremiah 25:31 The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth, for the LORD will bring charges against the nations; he will bring judgment on all mankind and put the wicked to the sword,'" declares the LORD.
Jeremiah 25:33 At that time those slain by the LORD will be everywhere--from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned or gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground.
Jeremiah 45:5 Should you then seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them. For I will bring disaster on all people, declares the LORD, but wherever you go I will let you escape with your life.'"
Jeremiah 46:15 Why will your warriors be laid low? They cannot stand, for the LORD will push them down.
Ezekiel 5:15 You will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke. I the LORD have spoken.
Ezekiel 38:17 "'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You are the one I spoke of in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel. At that time they prophesied for years that I would bring you against them.