jub - Isaiah:13:1-14:23

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

jub@Isaiah:13:2 @ Lift ye up [a] banner [as an example] upon [the] high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, raise the hand, that they may enter in by gates of princes.

jub@Isaiah:13:3 @ I have commanded my sanctified ones; I have also called my mighty ones for my anger that they [might] rejoice with my glory.

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

jub@Isaiah:13:5 @ They come from a far land, from the end of the heavens, [even] the LORD, and the instruments of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.

jub@Isaiah:13:6 @ Howl; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall come as destruction from the Almighty.

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

jub@Isaiah:13:8 @ And they shall be filled with terror; anguish and pain 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.

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

jub@Isaiah:13:10 @ For this reason the stars of the heavens and the lights thereof shall not shine: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not give forth her light.

jub@Isaiah:13:11 @ And I will visit evil upon the world and iniquity upon the wicked, and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease and will lay low the haughtiness of the strong.

jub@Isaiah:13:12 @ I will make the [noble] man more precious than fine gold and man more than the gold of Ophir.

jub@Isaiah:13:13 @ Because I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall be moved out of her place, in the indignation of the LORD of the hosts and in the day of his fierce anger.

jub@Isaiah:13:14 @ And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep without a shepherd: they shall each man look unto his own people, and flee each one unto his own land.

jub@Isaiah:13:15 @ Every one that is found shall be thrust through, and every one that is joined [unto them] shall fall by the sword.

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

jub@Isaiah:13:17 @ Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not look for silver, nor covet gold.

jub@Isaiah:13:18 @ They shall shoot at the young boys with bows, and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare [the] sons.

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

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

jub@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.

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

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

jub@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 the LORD for servants and handmaids; and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

jub@Isaiah:14:3 @ And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow and from thy fear and from the hard bondage in which thou wast made to serve,

jub@Isaiah:14:4 @ that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon and say, How has the oppressor ceased! The city that covets gold has ceased!

jub@Isaiah:14:5 @ The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked [and] the sceptre of the rulers

jub@Isaiah:14:6 @ who smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the Gentiles in anger and who did not defend the persecuted.

jub@Isaiah:14:7 @ The whole earth is at rest [and] is quiet; they sing praises.

jub@Isaiah:14:8 @ Even the fir trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.

jub@Isaiah:14:9 @ Sheol from beneath is aghast at thee; it stirs up the dead to meet [thee] at thy coming; it has raised up from their thrones all the princes of the earth, all the kings of the Gentiles.

jub@Isaiah:14:10 @ They all shall shout and say unto thee, Art thou also become sick as we? Art thou become like unto us?

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

jub@Isaiah:14:12 @ How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! [How] art thou cut down to the ground, who didst claim the Gentiles as an inheritance!

jub@Isaiah:14:13 @ Thou who said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven; upon high next to the stars of God I will exalt my throne: and I will sit upon the mount of the testimony and in the sides of the north;

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

jub@Isaiah:14:15 @ Yet thou shalt be cast down to Sheol, to the sides of the pit.

jub@Isaiah:14:16 @ Those that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, [and] consider thee, [saying], [Is] this the man that made the earth to tremble; that shook the kingdoms;

jub@Isaiah:14:17 @ [that] made the world as a wilderness and destroyed the cities thereof; [that] did not open the prison to his prisoners?

jub@Isaiah:14:18 @ All the kings of the Gentiles, [even] all of them, lie in glory, each one in his own house.

jub@Isaiah:14:19 @ But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, [and as] the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that went down to the bottom of the pit, as a carcass trodden under feet.

jub@Isaiah:14:20 @ Thou shalt not be numbered with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land [and] slain thy people; the seed of evildoers shall not be forever.

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

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

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