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Isaiah 13 1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. 2Set 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. 3I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called
my mighty men for mine anger, even my proudly exulting ones. 4The
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. 5They come from a
far country, from the uttermost pare of heaven, even Jehovah, and the
weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. 6Wail ye;
for the day of YHWH is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty
shall it come. 7Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every
heare of man shall melt: 8and 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. 9Behold, the day of YHWH cometh,
cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and
to destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 10For 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. 11And 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. 12I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a
man than the pure gold of Ophir. 13Therefore I will make the
heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in
the wrath of YHWH of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. 14And 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. 15Every one that is found
shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the
sword. 16Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before
their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished. 17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not
regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. 18And [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. 19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 20It 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. 21But 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. 22And 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. Average revision: 0 (ASV Unaltered)
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