Isaiah 13
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Proclamation Against Babylon
1The #Jer. 50; 51; Matt. 1:11; Rev. 14:8burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
2“Lift#Is. 18:3 up a banner #Jer. 51:25on the high mountain,
Raise your voice to them;
#Is. 10:32Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.
3I have commanded My sanctified ones;
I have also called #Joel 3:11My mighty ones for My anger—
Those who #Ps. 149:2rejoice in My exaltation.”
4The #Is. 17:12; Joel 3:14noise of a multitude in the mountains,
Like that of many people!
A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together!
The Lord of hosts musters
The army for battle.
5They come from a far country,
From the end of heaven—
The #Is. 42:13Lord and His weapons of indignation,
To destroy the whole #Is. 24:1; 34:2land.
6Wail, #Is. 2:12; Ezek. 30:3; Amos 5:18; Zeph. 1:7; Rev. 6:17for the day of the Lord is at hand!
#Is. 10:25; Job 31:23; Joel 1:15It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
7Therefore all hands will be limp,
Every man’s heart will melt,
8And they will be afraid.
#Ps. 48:6Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them;
They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth;
They will be amazed at one another;
Their faces will be like flames.
9Behold, #Mal. 4:1the day of the Lord comes,
Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger,
To lay the land desolate;
And He will destroy #Ps. 104:35; Prov. 2:22its sinners from it.
10For the stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not give their light;
The sun will be #Is. 24:21–23; Ezek. 32:7; Joel 2:31; Matt. 24:29; Mark 13:24; Luke 21:25darkened in its going forth,
And the moon will not cause its light to shine.
11“I will #Is. 26:21punish the world for its evil,
And the wicked for their iniquity;
#(Is. 2:17)I will halt the arrogance of the proud,
And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold,
A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13#Is. 34:4; 51:6; Hag. 2:6Therefore I will shake the heavens,
And the earth will move out of her place,
In the wrath of the Lord of hosts
And in #Ps. 110:5; Lam. 1:12the day of His fierce anger.
14It shall be as the hunted gazelle,
And as a sheep that no man takes up;
#Jer. 50:16; 51:9Every man will turn to his own people,
And everyone will flee to his own land.
15Everyone who is found will be thrust through,
And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
16Their children also will be #Ps. 137:8, 9; Is. 13:18; 14:21; Hos. 10:14; Nah. 3:10dashed to pieces before their eyes;
Their houses will be plundered
And their wives #Zech. 14:2ravished.
17“Behold,#Is. 21:2; Jer. 51:11, 28; Dan. 5:28, 31 I will stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not regard silver;
And as for gold, they will not delight in it.
18Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces,
And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
Their eye will not spare children.
19#Is. 14:4; Dan. 4:30; Rev. 18:11–16, 19, 21And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,
The beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride,
Will be as when God overthrew #Gen. 19:24; Deut. 29:23; Jer. 50:40; Amos 4:11Sodom and Gomorrah.
20#Jer. 50:3It will never be inhabited,
Nor will it be settled from generation to generation;
Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there,
Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.
21#Is. 34:11–15; Zeph. 2:14; Rev. 18:2But wild beasts of the desert will lie there,
And their houses will be full of owls;
Ostriches will dwell there,
And wild goats will caper there.
22The hyenas will howl in their citadels,
And jackals in their pleasant palaces.
#Jer. 51:33Her time is near to come,
And her days will not be prolonged.”
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Isaiah 13
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1 #
Is 47; Jer 50—51; Hab 1—2. The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
2On a bare hill raise a signal,
cry aloud to them;
wave the hand for them to enter
the gates of the nobles.
3I myself have commanded my consecrated ones,
have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger,
my proudly exulting ones.
4Hark, a tumult on the mountains
as of a great multitude!
Hark, an uproar of kingdoms,
of nations gathering together!
The Lord of hosts is mustering
a host for battle.
5They come from a distant land,
from the end of the heavens,
the Lord and the weapons of his indignation,
to destroy the whole earth.
6Wail, for the day of the Lord is near;
as destruction from the Almighty it will come!
7Therefore all hands will be feeble,
and every man's heart will melt,
8and 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.
9Behold, the day of the Lord comes,
cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,
to make the earth a desolation
and to destroy its sinners from it.
10 #
Mt 24.29; Mk 13.24; Rev 6.12; 8.12. 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.
11I 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.
12I will make men more rare than fine gold,
and mankind than the gold of Ophir.
13Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,
and the earth will be shaken out of its place,
at the wrath of the Lord of hosts
in the day of his fierce anger.
14And 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.
15Whoever is found will be thrust through,
and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.
16Their infants will be dashed in pieces
before their eyes;
their houses will be plundered
and their wives ravished.
17Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them,
who have no regard for silver
and do not delight in gold.
18Their bows will slaughter the young men;
they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;
their eyes will not pity children.
19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,
the splendor and pride of the Chaldeans,
will be like Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.
20It 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 #
Rev 18.2. 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.
22Hyenas 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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