Yahweh threatens to “visit on the world evil and on the wicked their iniquity” (Isaiah 13:11). When Yahweh comes for a visit, things get sorted.
And things get shut down. The next clause of 13:11 says that the Lord will “cause to cease” the arrogance of the proud. The verb is the hiphil of shabat : The day of Yahweh is a “Sabbath” visitation, a day of ceasing.
This is Yahweh’s form of Sabbath-keeping: Putting down the proud. No wonder Jesus didn’t think the Pharisees were genuinely keeping Sabbath.
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