Isaiah 13
1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
2 Set ye up an ensign upon the bare mountain, lift up the voice unto them, wave
the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for
mine anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise of
a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Jehovah of hosts is
mustering the host for the battle.
5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Jehovah,
and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6 Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty
shall it come.
7 Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:
8 and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold [of them] ; they
shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at
another; their faces [shall be] faces of flame.
9 Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make
the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their
light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not
cause its light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their
iniquity: and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low
the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of
Ophir.
13 Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken
out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce
anger.
14 And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man
gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man
to his own land.
15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken
shall fall by the sword.
16 Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses
shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver,
and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 And [their] bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no
pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall
be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to
generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall shepherds
make their flocks to lie down there.
21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full
of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall
dance there.
22 And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces:
and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.