akjv - Isaiah:13:1-14:23

akjv@Isaiah:13:1 @ The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

akjv@Isaiah:13:2 @ Lift you up a banner on the high mountain, exalt the voice to them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

akjv@Isaiah:13:3 @ I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.

akjv@Isaiah:13:4 @ The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts musters the host of the battle.

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

akjv@Isaiah:13:6 @ Howl you; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

akjv@Isaiah:13:7 @ Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man' heart shall melt:

akjv@Isaiah:13:8 @ And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travails: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

akjv@Isaiah:13:9 @ Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

akjv@Isaiah:13:10 @ For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

akjv@Isaiah:13:11 @ And I will punish the world for their 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.

akjv@Isaiah:13:12 @ I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

akjv@Isaiah:13:13 @ Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

akjv@Isaiah:13:14 @ And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man takes up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

akjv@Isaiah:13:15 @ Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined to them shall fall by the sword.

akjv@Isaiah:13:16 @ Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

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

akjv@Isaiah:13:18 @ Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.

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

akjv@Isaiah:13:20 @ It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelled in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

akjv@Isaiah:13:21 @ But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

akjv@Isaiah:13:22 @ And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

akjv@Isaiah:14:1 @ For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall join to the house of Jacob.

akjv@Isaiah:14:2 @ And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

akjv@Isaiah:14:3 @ And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage wherein you were made to serve,

akjv@Isaiah:14:4 @ That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

akjv@Isaiah:14:5 @ The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers.

akjv@Isaiah:14:6 @ He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hinders.

akjv@Isaiah:14:7 @ The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

akjv@Isaiah:14:8 @ Yes, the fir trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you are laid down, no feller is come up against us.

akjv@Isaiah:14:9 @ Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

akjv@Isaiah:14:10 @ All they shall speak and say to you, Are you also become weak as we? are you become like to us?

akjv@Isaiah:14:11 @ Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and the worms cover you.

akjv@Isaiah:14:12 @ How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how are you cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations!

akjv@Isaiah:14:13 @ For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also on the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

akjv@Isaiah:14:14 @ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

akjv@Isaiah:14:15 @ Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

akjv@Isaiah:14:16 @ They that see you shall narrowly look on you, and consider you, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

akjv@Isaiah:14:17 @ That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

akjv@Isaiah:14:18 @ All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

akjv@Isaiah:14:19 @ But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet.

akjv@Isaiah:14:20 @ You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, and slain your people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

akjv@Isaiah:14:21 @ Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

akjv@Isaiah:14:22 @ For I will rise up against them, said the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, said the LORD.

akjv@Isaiah:14:23 @ I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, said the LORD of hosts.