Isaiah 13
vw@Isaiah:13:1 @ The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:
vw@Isaiah:13:2 @ Lift up a banner on the bare mountain, raise the voice to them; wave the hand, so that they may enter the gates of the nobles.
vw@Isaiah:13:3 @ I have commanded My consecrated ones; I have also called My mighty ones for My anger, those who rejoice in My majesty.
vw@Isaiah:13:4 @ The sound of a multitude in the mountains, as of many people! A tumultuous sound of the kingdoms of nations gathered together! Jehovah of Hosts musters the army for battle.
vw@Isaiah:13:5 @ They come from a distant land, from the ends of the heavens; Jehovah and the weapons of His indignation, to destroy the whole land.
vw@Isaiah:13:6 @ Howl! For the day of Jehovah is at hand! It shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
vw@Isaiah:13:7 @ Therefore all hands shall be faint, and every mans heart shall melt;
vw@Isaiah:13:8 @ and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them. They shall writhe like a woman giving birth. They shall be amazed at one another; their faces like flames.
vw@Isaiah:13:9 @ Behold, the day of Jehovah comes, cruel and with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land waste; and He shall destroy its sinners out of it.
vw@Isaiah:13:10 @ For the stars of the heavens and their constellations shall not give light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not shine its light.
vw@Isaiah:13:11 @ And I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. And I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud, and will lay low the haughtiness of the tyrants.
vw@Isaiah:13:12 @ I will make mortal man more precious than refined gold; even mankind than the pure gold of Ophir.
vw@Isaiah:13:13 @ Thus I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall move out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts, and in the day of His fierce anger.
vw@Isaiah:13:14 @ And it shall be as a hunted gazelle, and as a sheep that no man takes up; each man shall turn to his own people, and everyone flee into his own land.
vw@Isaiah:13:15 @ Everyone who is found shall be thrust through; and everyone who is captured shall fall by the sword.
vw@Isaiah:13:16 @ Their children shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished.
vw@Isaiah:13:17 @ Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not value silver; and they shall not delight in gold.
vw@Isaiah:13:18 @ Their bows shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
vw@Isaiah:13:19 @ And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the majestic beauty of Chaldea, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
vw@Isaiah:13:20 @ It shall nevermore be inhabited, nor shall it be lived in from generation to generation; nor shall the Arabian pitch his tent there; nor shall the shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
vw@Isaiah:13:21 @ But the wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of howling creatures; and young owls shall dwell there, and wild goats shall skip about.
vw@Isaiah:13:22 @ And howling beasts shall respond from desolate places, and dragons in the delightful palaces. Indeed, her time will soon come to pass, and her days shall not be prolonged.