Isaiah:13

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* The (note :)That is , the great calamity which was prophesied to come on Babel , a grievous burden which they were not able to bear . In these twelve chapters following he speaks of the plagues with which God would smite the strange nations (whom they knew ) to declare that God chastised the Israelites as his children and these others as his enemies : and also that if God does not spare these who are ignorant , they must not think strange if he punishes them who have knowledge of his Law , and do not keep it .(:note ) burden of Babylon , which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw . * Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain , exalt the voice to them , shake the (note :)That is , the Medes and Persians .(:note ) hand , that they may go into the gates of the nobles . * I have commanded my (note :)That is , prepared and appointed to execute my judgments .(:note ) sanctified ones , I have also called my mighty ones for my anger , [even ] them that rejoice in my Who willingly go about to the work to which I appoint them , but how the wicked do this , read ( Isa_10:6 ). highness . * The noyse of a multitude is in the mountaines , like a great people : a tumultuous voyce of the kingdomes of the nations gathered together : the Lorde of hostes nombreth the hoste of the battell . * They come from a far country , from the end of heaven , [even ] the LORD , and the (note :)The army of the Medes and the Persians against Babylon .(:note ) weapons of his indignation , to destroy the whole land . * Wail (note :)You Babylonians .(:note ) ye ; for the day of the LORD [is ] at hand ; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty . * Therefore shal all hands be weakened , and all mens hearts shall melt , * And they shall be afraid : pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them ; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth : they shall be amazed one at another ; their faces [shall be as ] (note :)The Babylonians anger and grief will be so much that their faces will burn as fire .(:note ) flames . * Beholde , the day of the Lorde commeth , cruel , with wrath and fierce anger to lay the land wast : and he shall destroy the sinners out of it . * For the (note :)They who are overcome will think that all the powers of heaven and earth are against them , ( Eze_32:7 ; Joe_3:15 ; Mat_24:29 ).(:note ) stars of heaven and its constellations shall not give their light : the sun shall be darkened in his going forth , and the moon shall not cause her light to shine . * And I will punish the (note :)He compares Babylon to the whole world because they so esteemed themselves by reason of their great empire .(:note ) world for [their ] evil , and the wicked for their iniquity ; and I will cause the arrogance of the He notes the principal vice , to which they are most given as are all that abound in wealth . proud to cease , and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible . * I will make a (note :)He notes the great slaughter that will be , seeing the enemy will neither for gold or silver spare a man 's life as in ( Isa_13:17 ).(:note ) man more rare than fine gold ; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir . * Therefore I will shake the heauen , and the earth shall remooue out of her place in the wrath of the Lord of hostes , and in the day of his fierce anger . * And (note :)Meaning the power of Babylon with their hired soldiers .(:note ) it shall be as the chased roe , and as a sheep that no man taketh up : they shall every man turn to his own people , and flee every one to his own land . * Euery one that is founde , shall be striken through : and whosoeuer ioyneth himselfe , shal fal by the sworde . * Their (note :)This was not accomplished when Cyrus took Babylon , but after the death of Alexander the great .(:note ) children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes ; their houses shall be plundered , and their wives ravished . * Beholde , I will stirre vp the Medes against them , which shall not regarde siluer , nor be desirous of golde . * With bowes also shall they destroy ye children , and shall haue no compassion vpon the fruit of the wombe , and their eies shall not spare the children . * And Babel the glorie of kingdomes , the beautie and pride of the Chaldeans , shall be as the destruction of God in Sodom and Gomorah . * It shall never be inhabited , neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : neither shall the (note :)Who used to go from country to country to find pasture for their beasts , but they will find none .(:note ) Arabian pitch tent there ; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there . * But (note :)Who were either wild beasts or fools , or wicked spirits , by which Satan deluded man , as by the fairies , goblins , and such like fantasies .(:note ) 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 . * And Iim shall crie in their palaces , and dragons in their pleasant palaces : and the time thereof is readie to come , and the daies thereof shall not be prolonged .

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