Isaiah:13
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The burden of Babylon ,
which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see .
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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 .
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I have commanded my sanctified ones ,
I have also called my mighty ones for my anger ,
even them that rejoice in my highness .
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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 .
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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 .
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Howl you ;
for the day of the LORD is at hand ;
it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty .
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Therefore shall all hands be faint ,
and every man '
heart shall melt :
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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I will make a man more precious than fine gold ;
even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir .
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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 .
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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 .
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Every one that is found shall be thrust through ;
and every one that is joined to them shall fall by the sword .
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Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes ;
their houses shall be spoiled ,
and their wives ravished .
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Behold ,
I will stir up the Medes against them ,
which shall not regard silver ;
and as for gold ,
they shall not delight in it .
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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 .
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And Babylon ,
the glory of kingdoms ,
the beauty of the Chaldees '
excellency ,
shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .