| 13 | Isaiah | ||
| 1 | The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw. | God will punish Babylon. Is.13.1-22 | |
| 2 | On a bare hill raise a signal, cry aloud to them; wave the hand for them to enter the gates of the nobles. | ||
| 3 | I myself have commanded my consecrated ones, have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger, my proudly exulting ones. | ||
| 4 | Hark, a tumult on the mountains as of a great multitude! Hark, an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! Yahweh of hosts is mustering a host for battle. | ||
| 5 | They come from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, Yahweh and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth. | ||
| 6 | Wail, for the day of Yahweh is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come! | ||
| 7 | Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every man's heart will melt, | ||
| 8 | and they will be dismayed. Pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in travail. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame. | ||
| 9 | Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the earth a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it. | ||
| 10 | For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising and the moon will not shed its light. | ||
| 11 | I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and lay low the haughtiness of the ruthless. | ||
| 12 | I will make men more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir. | ||
| 13 | Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, at the wrath of Yahweh of hosts in the day of his fierce anger. | ||
| 14 | And like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with none to gather them, every man will turn to his own people, and every man will flee to his own land. | ||
| 15 | Whoever is found will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword. | ||
| 16 | Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished. | ||
| 17 | Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold. | ||
| 18 | Their bows will slaughter the young men; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not pity children. | ||
| 19 | And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendour and pride of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them. | ||
| 20 | It will never be inhabited or dwelt in for all generations; no Arab will pitch his tent there, no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there. | ||
| 21 | But wild beasts will lie down there, and its houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and there satyrs will dance. | ||
| 22 | Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in the pleasant palaces; its time is close at hand and its days will not be prolonged. | ||
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