Isaiah 13
13
The Judgment of Babylon
1The oracle concerning #ver. 19; ch. 14:4; 21:9; 47:1; See Jer. 51, 52 Babylon which #ch. 1:1Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
2On a bare hill #ch. 5:26 raise a signal;
cry aloud to them;
wave the hand for #[ch. 41:25]them to enter
the gates of the nobles.
3I myself have commanded my consecrated ones,
and have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger,
my proudly exulting ones.#13:3 Or those who exult in my majesty
4The sound #[ch. 22:5] of a tumult is on the mountains
as of a great multitude!
The sound of an uproar of kingdoms,
of nations gathering together!
# [Josh. 5:13, 14] The Lord of hosts is mustering
a host for battle.
5 # [ch. 46:11] They come from a distant land,
from the end of the heavens,
the Lord and the weapons of his indignation,
to destroy the whole land.#13:5 Or earth; also verse 9
6 # ch. 14:31; 15:2, 3, 8; 16:7; Jer. 51:8; Ezek. 30:2 Wail, for #ch. 2:12; Joel 1:15; Zeph. 1:7the day of the Lord is near;
as destruction from the Almighty#13:6 The Hebrew words for destruction and almighty sound alike it will come!
7Therefore all hands will be feeble,
and every human heart #See Josh. 2:11will melt.
8They will be dismayed:
# [Nah. 2:10] pangs and agony will seize them;
# ch. 26:17; Jer. 4:31; 6:24; Mic. 4:9, 10; John 16:21 they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at one another;
their faces will be aflame.
9Behold, #[See ver. 6 above] the day of the Lord comes,
cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,
to make the land a desolation
and #[Ps. 104:35]to destroy its sinners from it.
10 # [ch. 34:4] For the stars of the heavens and their constellations
will not give their light;
#
Ezek. 32:7; Joel 2:31; 3:15; Matt. 24:29; Mark 13:24; Luke 21:25 the sun will be dark at its rising,
and the moon will not shed its light.
11I will punish #ch. 24:21 the world for its evil,
and the wicked for their iniquity;
I will #[ch. 24:4] put an end to the pomp of the arrogant,
# [ch. 2:11, 17] and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.
12I will make #ch. 24:6 people more rare than fine gold,
and mankind than the #1 Kgs. 10:11; Job 28:16gold of Ophir.
13Therefore #Hag. 2:6I 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,
#
Jer. 50:16; 51:9; [1 Kgs. 22:36] each will turn to his own people,
and each will flee to his own land.
15Whoever is found will be thrust through,
and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.
16 #
Ps. 137:9; Nah. 3:10 Their infants will be dashed in pieces
before their eyes;
their houses will be plundered
and their wives ravished.
17Behold, #ch. 21:2; Jer. 51:11, 28; Dan. 5:28, 31I am stirring up the Medes against them,
who have no regard for silver
and do not delight in gold.
18 #
Jer. 50:14, 29; 51:3 Their bows will slaughter#13:18 Hebrew dash in pieces the young men;
they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;
their eyes will not pity children.
19And Babylon, #[ch. 47:5] the glory of kingdoms,
the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans,
will be #ch. 1:9; Gen. 19:24; Jer. 50:40; Amos 4:11like Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.
20 #
Jer. 51:37, 43 It will never be inhabited
or lived in for all generations;
no #Jer. 3:2 Arab will pitch his tent there;
no #Jer. 33:12shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
21But #[ch. 34:13, 14] wild animals will lie down there,
and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there #ch. 34:13; Jer. 50:39ostriches#13:21 Or owls will dwell,
and there wild goats will dance.
22Hyenas#13:22 Or foxes will cry in its towers,
and #ch. 35:7; Jer. 51:37 jackals in #[ch. 25:2; Amos 3:15]the pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand
and its days will not be prolonged.
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Isaiah 13
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A Message about Babylon
1Isaiah son of Amoz received this message concerning the destruction of Babylon:
2“Raise a signal flag on a bare hilltop.
Call up an army against Babylon.
Wave your hand to encourage them
as they march into the palaces of the high and mighty.
3I, the Lord, have dedicated these soldiers for this task.
Yes, I have called mighty warriors to express my anger,
and they will rejoice when I am exalted.”
4Hear the noise on the mountains!
Listen, as the vast armies march!
It is the noise and shouting of many nations.
The Lord of Heaven’s Armies has called this army together.
5They come from distant countries,
from beyond the farthest horizons.
They are the Lord’s weapons to carry out his anger.
With them he will destroy the whole land.
6Scream in terror, for the day of the Lord has arrived—
the time for the Almighty to destroy.
7Every arm is paralyzed with fear.
Every heart melts,
8and people are terrified.
Pangs of anguish grip them,
like those of a woman in labor.
They look helplessly at one another,
their faces aflame with fear.
9For see, the day of the Lord is coming—
the terrible day of his fury and fierce anger.
The land will be made desolate,
and all the sinners destroyed with it.
10The heavens will be black above them;
the stars will give no light.
The sun will be dark when it rises,
and the moon will provide no light.
11“I, the Lord, will punish the world for its evil
and the wicked for their sin.
I will crush the arrogance of the proud
and humble the pride of the mighty.
12I will make people scarcer than gold—
more rare than the fine gold of Ophir.
13For I will shake the heavens.
The earth will move from its place
when the Lord of Heaven’s Armies displays his wrath
in the day of his fierce anger.”
14Everyone in Babylon will run about like a hunted gazelle,
like sheep without a shepherd.
They will try to find their own people
and flee to their own land.
15Anyone who is captured will be cut down—
run through with a sword.
16Their little children will be dashed to death before their eyes.
Their homes will be sacked, and their wives will be raped.
17“Look, I will stir up the Medes against Babylon.
They cannot be tempted by silver
or bribed with gold.
18The attacking armies will shoot down the young men with arrows.
They will have no mercy on helpless babies
and will show no compassion for children.”
19Babylon, the most glorious of kingdoms,
the flower of Chaldean pride,
will be devastated like Sodom and Gomorrah
when God destroyed them.
20Babylon will never be inhabited again.
It will remain empty for generation after generation.
Nomads will refuse to camp there,
and shepherds will not bed down their sheep.
21Desert animals will move into the ruined city,
and the houses will be haunted by howling creatures.
Owls will live among the ruins,
and wild goats will go there to dance.
22Hyenas will howl in its fortresses,
and jackals will make dens in its luxurious palaces.
Babylon’s days are numbered;
its time of destruction will soon arrive.
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