Literature: Verses 6–9 cataloged Judah’s current sins. Verse 10 introduced Yahweh’s (future) reaction to those sins. Now verses 11–22 list the retributions that will result (future). Yahweh’s judgment will fall upon Judah, with sins leading straight to cleansing redemption. However, although Isaiah could have made precise parallels between sins and retribution, he makes only a general parallel. Verse 18 (idols) corresponds roughly to verse 8, and verses 13–16 with verse 7 (wealth), while he mentions hiding in caves in verses 10, 19, 21.
Although he does not make tight correlations between sin and retribution, Isaiah phrases the retribution in internal parallels:
Haughtiness will be humbled (2 Ne. 12:11, 17): “The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.” // “And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.”
Hiding in caves and rocks (2 Ne. 12:10, 19, 21): “O ye wicked ones, enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for the fear of the Lord and the glory of his majesty shall smite thee.” // “And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for the fear of the Lord shall come upon them and the glory of his majesty shall smite them, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.” // “… go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for the fear of the Lord shall come upon them and the majesty of his glory shall smite them, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.”
Destruction of idols (2 Ne. 12:18, 20): “And the idols he shall utterly abolish.” // “In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which he hath made for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats.”
Isaiah underscores these parallels by using identical phrases in the verses associated with haughtiness (vv. 11, 17) and hiding in caves (vv. 10, 19, 21). The repetition emphasizes that material. Judah will experience a threefold chastisement, which Isaiah describes in ways that emphasizes both the seriousness and its divine nature.