noyes - Isaiah:13:1-14:23

noyes@Isaiah:13:1 @ A prophecy concerning Babylon, which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.

noyes@Isaiah:13:2 @ Upon the bare mountain lift up a banner; Cry aloud to them, wave the hand, That they may enter the gates of the tyrants!

noyes@Isaiah:13:3 @ I have given orders to my consecrated ones, Yea, I have called upon my mighty ones to execute mine anger, My proud exulters!

noyes@Isaiah:13:4 @ The noise of a multitude upon the mountains, like that of a great people! The tumultuous noise of kingdoms, of nations gathered together! Jehovah of hosts mustereth his army for battle.

noyes@Isaiah:13:5 @ They come from a distant country, From the end of Heaven, Jehovah and the instruments of his indignation. To lay waste the whole land.

noyes@Isaiah:13:6 @ Howl ye, for the day of Jehovah is at hand! Like a destruction from the Almighty, it cometh;

noyes@Isaiah:13:7 @ Therefore shall all hands hang down, And every heart of man shall melt.

noyes@Isaiah:13:8 @ They shall be in consternation; Distress and anguish shall lay hold of them; As a woman in travail shall they writhe; They shall look upon one another with amazement: Their faces shall glow like flames.

noyes@Isaiah:13:9 @ Behold! the day of Jehovah cometh, Terrible, full of wrath and burning indignation, To make the land a waste, And to destroy the sinners out of it.

noyes@Isaiah:13:10 @ For the stars of heaven, and the constellations thereof, Shall not give their light; The sun shall be darkened at his going forth, And the moon shall withhold her light.

noyes@Isaiah:13:11 @ For I will punish the world for its guilt, And the wicked for their iniquity. I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud, And I will bring down the haughtiness of the tyrants.

noyes@Isaiah:13:12 @ I will make men scarcer than gold; Yea, men than the gold of Ophir.

noyes@Isaiah:13:13 @ Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, And the earth shall be shaken out of her place, In the anger of Jehovah of hosts, In the day of his burning indignation.

noyes@Isaiah:13:14 @ Then shall they be like a chased doe; Like a flock, which no one gathereth together; Every one shall turn to his own people, And every one flee to his own land.

noyes@Isaiah:13:15 @ Every one that is overtaken shall be thrust through, And every one that is caught shall fall by the sword.

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

noyes@Isaiah:13:17 @ Behold, I stir up against them the Medes, Who make no account of silver, And as to gold, they do not regard it.

noyes@Isaiah:13:18 @ Their bows shall strike down the young men, And on the fruit of the womb they shall have no compassion; Their eye shall not pity the children.

noyes@Isaiah:13:19 @ So shall Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The proud ornament of the Chaldeans, Be like Sodom and Gomorrah, which God overthrew,

noyes@Isaiah:13:20 @ It shall never more be inhabited; Nor shall it be dwelt in through all generations. Nor shall the Arabian pitch his tent there, Nor shall shepherds make their folds there.

noyes@Isaiah:13:21 @ But there shall the wild beasts of the desert lodge, And owls shall fill their houses; And ostriches shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.

noyes@Isaiah:13:22 @ Wolves shall howl in their palaces, And jackals in their pleasant edifices. Her time is near, And her days shall not be prolonged.

noyes@Isaiah:14:1 @ For Jehovah will have compassion upon Jacob, And will again set his love upon Israel, And cause them to rest in his own land. And strangers shall join themselves to them, And cleave to the house of Jacob.

noyes@Isaiah:14:2 @ The nations shall take them and bring them to their own place; And the house of Israel shall possess them, in the land of Jehovah, As servants and as handmaids; They shall take captive their captors, And they shall rule over their oppressors.

noyes@Isaiah:14:3 @ So when Jehovah shall have given thee rest From thy sorrow and thy distress, And from the hard bondage Which was laid upon thee,

noyes@Isaiah:14:4 @ Then shall thou utter this song over the king of Babylon, and say, "How hath the tyrant fallen, The oppression ceased!

noyes@Isaiah:14:5 @ Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, The rod of the tyrants,

noyes@Isaiah:14:6 @ That smote the people in anger, With a continual stroke, That lorded it over the nations in wrath With unremitted oppression.

noyes@Isaiah:14:7 @ The whole earth is at rest, is quiet; They break forth into singing.

noyes@Isaiah:14:8 @ Even the cypresstrees exult over thee, And the cedars of Lebanon: Since thou art fallen, No feller cometh up against us.

noyes@Isaiah:14:9 @ The underworld is in commotion on account of thee, To meet thee at thy coming; It stirreth up before thee the shades, all the mighty of the earth; It arouseth from their thrones all the kings of the nations;

noyes@Isaiah:14:10 @ They all accost thee, and say, Art thou, too, become weak as we? Art thou become like us?

noyes@Isaiah:14:11 @ Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, And the sound of thy harps. Vermin have become thy couch, And worms thy covering.

noyes@Isaiah:14:12 @ How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cast down to the ground, Thou that didst trample upon the nations!

noyes@Isaiah:14:13 @ Thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend to heaven, Above the stars of God will I exalt my throne; I will sit upon the mount of assembly in the recesses of the north.

noyes@Isaiah:14:14 @ I will ascend above the height of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.

noyes@Isaiah:14:15 @ But thou art brought down to the grave, To the depths of the pit.

noyes@Isaiah:14:16 @ They that see thee gaze upon thee, and view thee attentively, (and say,) Is this the man that made the earth tremble, That shook kingdoms,

noyes@Isaiah:14:17 @ That made the world a wilderness, And laid waste its cities, And sent not his captives to their homes?

noyes@Isaiah:14:18 @ All the kings of the nations, yea, all of them, Lie down in glory, each in his own sepulchre;

noyes@Isaiah:14:19 @ But thou art cast forth without a grave, Like a worthless branch; Covered with the slain, who are pierced by the sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit, Like a carcass trampled under foot.

noyes@Isaiah:14:20 @ Thou shalt not be joined with them in the grave, Because thou hast destroyed thy country, And slain thy people; The race of evildoers shall nevermore be named.

noyes@Isaiah:14:21 @ Prepare ye slaughter for his children, For the iniquity of their fathers, That they may no more arise, and possess the earth, And fill the world with enemies!"

noyes@Isaiah:14:22 @ For I will arise against them, saith Jehovah of hosts, And I will cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, Posterity and offspring, saith Jehovah.

noyes@Isaiah:14:23 @ I will make her the possession of the porcupine, and pools of water; Yea, I will sweep her away with the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah of hosts.