Isaiah 13
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Prophecies about Babylon
1The pronouncement concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:
2Lift up a flag on the #13:2 Or wind-swept mountainbare hill,
Raise your voice to them,
Wave the hand that they may enter the doors of the nobles.
3I have commanded My consecrated ones,
I have also called for My warriors
Who boast in My eminence,
To execute My anger.
4A sound of a roar on the mountains,
Like that of many people!
A sound of an uproar of kingdoms,
Of nations gathered together!
The Lord of armies is mustering the army for battle.
5They are coming from a distant country,
From the #13:5 Lit end of heavenfarthest horizons,
The Lord and the weapons of His indignation,
To destroy the whole land.
Judgment on the Day of the Lord
6Wail, for the day of the Lord is near!
It will come as destruction from #13:6 Heb Shaddaithe Almighty.
7Therefore all hands will fall limp,
And every human heart will melt.
8They will be terrified,
Pains and anguish will take hold of them;
They will writhe like a woman in labor,
They will look at one another in astonishment,
Their faces aflame.
9Behold, the day of the Lord is coming,
Cruel, with fury and burning anger,
To make the land a desolation;
And He will exterminate its sinners from it.
10For the stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not flash their light;
The sun will be dark when it rises
And the moon will not shed its light.
11So I will punish the world for its evil
And the wicked for their wrongdoing;
I will also put an end to the audacity of the proud
And humiliate the arrogance of the #13:11 Or violenttyrants.
12I will make mortal man scarcer than pure gold
And mankind than the gold of Ophir.
13Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,
And the earth will be shaken from its place
At the fury of the Lord of armies
In the day of His burning anger.
14And it will be that, like a hunted gazelle,
Or like sheep with no one to gather them,
Each of them will turn to his own people,
And each of them will flee to his own land.
15Anyone who is found will be thrust through,
And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
16Their little ones also will be dashed to pieces
Before their eyes;
Their houses will be plundered
And their wives raped.
Babylon Will Fall to the Medes
17¶Behold, I am going to stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not value silver or take pleasure in gold.
18And their bows will #13:18 Lit dash in piecesmow down the young men,
They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb,
Nor will their eye pity #13:18 Lit sonschildren.
19And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans’ pride,
Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation;
Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there,
Nor will shepherds allow their flocks to lie down there.
21But desert creatures will lie down there,
And their houses will be full of #13:21 Or howling creaturesowls;
Ostriches also will live there, and #13:21 Or goat demonsshaggy goats will frolic there.
22 # 13:22 Or howling creatures Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers
And jackals in their luxurious palaces.
Her fateful time also #13:22 Lit is near to comewill soon come,
And her days will not be prolonged.
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Yeshayah (Isaiah) 13
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1The message concerning Baḇel which Yeshayahu son of Amots saw.
2“Lift up a banner on the high mountain, raise your voice to them; wave your hand, let them enter the gates of the nobles.
3“I have commanded My set-apart ones; I have also called My mighty men for My displeasure, My proudly exulting ones.”
4The noise of an uproar in the mountains, like that of many people! A noise of uproar of the reigns of nations gathered together! יהוה of hosts is gathering an army for battle.
5They are coming from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, even יהוה and His weapons of displeasure, to destroy all the earth.#See also chapters Isa. 24; Isa. 34; Isa. 63; Isa. 66
6Howl, for the day of יהוה is near! It comes as a destruction from the Almighty.
7Therefore all hands go limp, every man’s heart melts,
8and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows take hold of them, they are in pain as a woman in labour; they are amazed at one another, their faces aflame!
9See, the day of יהוה is coming, fierce, with wrath and heat of displeasure, to lay the earth waste, and destroy its sinners from it.
10For the stars of the heavens and their constellations do not give off their light. The sun shall be dark at its rising, and the moon not send out its light.
11“And I shall punish the world for its evil, and the wrong for their crookedness, and shall put an end to the arrogance of the proud, and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
12“I shall make mortal man scarcer than fine gold, and mankind scarcer than the gold of Ophir.
13“So I shall make the heavens tremble, and the earth shall shake from her place, in the wrath of יהוה of hosts and in the day of the heat of His displeasure.
14“And it shall be as the hunted gazelle, and as a sheep that no man takes up – every man turns to his own people, and everyone flees to his own land.
15“Whoever is found is thrust through, and everyone taken falls by the sword.
16“And their children are dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses plundered and their wives ravished.
17“See, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who do not regard silver, and as for gold, they do not delight in it.
18“And bows dash the young to pieces, and they have no compassion on the fruit of the womb, their eye spares no children.
19“And Baḇel, the splendour of reigns, the comeliness of the pride of the Kasdim, shall be as when Elohim overthrew Seḏom and Amorah.
20“She shall never be inhabited, nor be settled from generation to generation; nor shall the Araḇian pitch tents there, nor shepherds rest their flocks there.
21“But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be filled with owls. And ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats frolic there.
22“And hyenas shall cry in their citadels, and jackals in their pleasant palaces. And her time is near to come, and her days are not drawn out.”
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