| Isa. 13:1 |
The burden concerning Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw: |
| Isa. 13:2 |
Upon a bare mountain raise up a standard; / Lift up [your] voice to them. / Wave [your] hand that they may enter / The gates of the nobles. |
| Isa. 13:3 |
I Myself have commanded My sanctified ones; / I have also called My mighty ones to My wrath, / Those who exult in My majesty. |
| Isa. 13:4 |
The sound of a tumult in the mountains, / Like that of many peoples! / The sound of an uproar of the kingdoms, / Of nations gathered together! / Jehovah of hosts is mustering / An army for battle. |
| Isa. 13:5 |
They are coming from a distant land, / From the ends of heaven-- / Jehovah and the instruments of His indignation-- / To ruin all the land. |
| Isa. 13:6 |
Howl, for the day of Jehovah has drawn near! / As destruction from the Almighty, it will come. |
| Isa. 13:7 |
Because of this all the hands will drop, / And every human heart will melt; |
| Isa. 13:8 |
And [people] will be dismayed. / Pangs and anguish will seize them; / Like a woman giving birth, they will writhe. / Each man will look toward his neighbor dumbfounded; / Their faces are inflamed. |
| Isa. 13:9 |
Now the day of Jehovah is coming-- / Cruel and [with] overflowing wrath and burning anger-- / To make the land a desolation; / And He will destroy its sinners off of it. |
| Isa. 13:10 |
For the stars of heaven and their constellations / Will not shine forth their light; / The sun will be dark at its rising, / And the moon will not let its light shine. |
| Isa. 13:11 |
And I will punish the world for [its] evil, / And the wicked for their iniquity; / I will stop the arrogance of the proud, / And the haughtiness of the terrible I will abase. |
| Isa. 13:12 |
I will make mortal man rarer than pure gold, / And mankind [rarer] than the gold of Ophir. |
| Isa. 13:13 |
Hence, I will make the heavens shake, / And the earth will quake out of its place, At the overflowing wrath of Jehovah of hosts, / In the day of His burning anger. |
| Isa. 13:14 |
And like the hunted gazelle / And sheep without someone to gather [them,] / Each man will turn to his own people, / And each will flee to his own land. |
| Isa. 13:15 |
Everyone found will be pierced through, / And everyone caught will fall by the sword. |
| Isa. 13:16 |
And their little ones will be dashed to pieces / Before their eyes; / Their houses will be plundered, / And their wives will be attacked. |
| Isa. 13:17 |
Now I rouse up the Medes against them, / Who will not esteem silver highly, / Nor take delight in gold. |
| Isa. 13:18 |
[Their] bows will shatter the young men; / And they will not have compassion on the fruit of the womb: / Their eyes will have no pity on children. |
| Isa. 13:19 |
And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, / The glory of the Chaldeans' majesty, / Will be as when God overthrew / Sodom and Gomorrah: |
| Isa. 13:20 |
It will not be inhabited forever; / It will not be dwelt in from generation to generation. / And the Arab will not set up his tent there, / Nor will the shepherds make [their flocks] lie down there. |
| Isa. 13:21 |
But desert animals will lie down there, / And their houses will be full of wild dogs; / There ostriches will dwell, / And wild goats will prance there; |
| Isa. 13:22 |
Hyenas will respond in their citadels, / And jackals in [their] exquisite palaces. / Her time is about to come, / And her days will not be prolonged. |