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Isa.|13:1|-|The burden concerning |1|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 enterThe 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 musteringAn 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|-||a|Howl, for the |1|day of Jehovah has drawn |b|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.|a|Pangs and anguish will seize them;
Like a woman |b|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 constellationsWill not shine forth their light;
The sun will be |a|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 |a|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 gazelleAnd 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 piecesBefore their eyes;
Their houses will be plundered,And their wives will be attacked.
Isa.|13:17|-|Now |1|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 |a|glory of the Chaldeans’ majesty,
|b|Will be as when God overthrew|c|Sodom and Gomorrah:
Isa.|13:20|-|It will not be |a|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 |a|animals will lie down there,And their houses will be full of |1|wild dogs;
There ostriches will dwell,And |2|wild goats will prance there;
Isa.|13:22|-|Hyenas will respond in their |1|citadels,And jackals in their exquisite palaces.
Her time is about to come,And her days will not be prolonged.
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