acv - Isaiah:13:1-14:23

acv@Isaiah:13:1 @ The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

acv@Isaiah:13:2 @ Set ye up an ensign upon the bare mountain. Lift up the voice to them. Wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

acv@Isaiah:13:3 @ I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.

acv@Isaiah:13:4 @ The 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! LORD of hosts is mustering the army for the battle.

acv@Isaiah:13:5 @ They come from a far country, from the outermost part of heaven, even LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

acv@Isaiah:13:6 @ Wail ye, for the day of LORD is at hand. It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.

acv@Isaiah:13:7 @ Therefore all hands shall be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt.

acv@Isaiah:13:8 @ And they shall be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows shall take hold. They shall be in pain as a woman in travail. They shall look in amazement one at another, their faces, faces of flame.

acv@Isaiah:13:9 @ Behold, the day of LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

acv@Isaiah:13:10 @ For the stars of heaven and the constellations of it shall not give their light. The sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.

acv@Isaiah:13:11 @ And I will punish the world for the evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

acv@Isaiah:13:12 @ I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.

acv@Isaiah:13:13 @ Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

acv@Isaiah:13:14 @ And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathers, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.

acv@Isaiah:13:15 @ Everyone who is found shall be thrust through, and everyone who is taken shall fall by the sword.

acv@Isaiah:13:16 @ Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.

acv@Isaiah:13:17 @ Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

acv@Isaiah:13:18 @ And [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.

acv@Isaiah:13:19 @ And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

acv@Isaiah:13:20 @ It shall never be inhabited, nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, nor shall shepherds make their flocks to lay down there.

acv@Isaiah:13:21 @ But wild beasts of the desert shall lay there, and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures. And ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.

acv@Isaiah:13:22 @ And 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.

acv@Isaiah:14:1 @ For LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. And the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cling to the house of Jacob.

acv@Isaiah:14:2 @ And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place. And the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of LORD for servants and for handmaids. And they shall take them captive whose captives they were, and they shal

acv@Isaiah:14:3 @ And it shall come to pass in the day that LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy trouble, and from the hard service in which thou were made to serve,

acv@Isaiah:14:4 @ that thou shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased!

acv@Isaiah:14:5 @ LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

acv@Isaiah:14:6 @ who smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

acv@Isaiah:14:7 @ The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet. They break forth into singing.

acv@Isaiah:14:8 @ Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since thou are laid low, no hewer has come up against us.

acv@Isaiah:14:9 @ Sheol from beneath is moved for thee, to meet thee at thy coming. It stirs up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

acv@Isaiah:14:10 @ They shall all answer and say to thee, Have thou also become weak as we? Have thou become like us?

acv@Isaiah:14:11 @ Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, [and] the noise of thy viols. The worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.

acv@Isaiah:14:12 @ How thou are fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! How thou are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

acv@Isaiah:14:13 @ And thou said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the outermost parts of the north.

acv@Isaiah:14:14 @ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will make myself like the Most High.

acv@Isaiah:14:15 @ Yet thou shall be brought down to Sheol, to the utmost parts of the pit.

acv@Isaiah:14:16 @ Those who see thee shall gaze at thee. They shall consider thee, [saying], Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,

acv@Isaiah:14:17 @ who made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities of it, who did not let loose his prisoners to their home?

acv@Isaiah:14:18 @ All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, each one in his own house.

acv@Isaiah:14:19 @ But thou are cast forth away from thy sepulcher like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, as a dead body trodden under foot.

acv@Isaiah:14:20 @ Thou shall not be joined with them in burial, because thou have destroyed thy land. Thou have slain thy people. The seed of evil-doers shall not be named forever.

acv@Isaiah:14:21 @ Prepare ye slaughter for his sons for the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.

acv@Isaiah:14:22 @ And I will rise up against them, says LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son, says LORD.

acv@Isaiah:14:23 @ I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. And I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says LORD of hosts.