Isaiah:13

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* The burden of Babylon , which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw : * Lift up a banner on a bare mountain , exalt the voice to them , shake the hand , so that they may go into the gates of the nobles . * I have commanded My holy ones , I have also called My mighty ones for anger , those who rejoice in My highness . * The noise of a multitude in the mountains , as of a great people ; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together ; Jehovah of hosts gathers an army for the battle . * They come from a far country , from the end of the heavens , the LORD and the weapons of His indignation , to destroy all the land . * Howl ! For the day of the LORD [is ] at hand ; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty . * Therefore all hands shall be faint , and every man 's heart shall melt ; * and they shall be afraid . Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them . They shall be in pain like a woman who travails . They shall be amazed at one another , their faces [like ] flames . * Behold , the day of the LORD comes , cruel and [with ] wrath and fierce anger , to lay the land waste ; and He shall destroy its sinners out of it . * For the stars of the heavens and their constellations shall not give light ; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth , and the moon shall not reflect its light . * And I will visit evil on the world , and their iniquity on the wicked . And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease , and will lay low the pride of tyrants . * I will make a man more precious than gold ; even a man than the fine gold of Ophir . * So I will shake the heavens , and the earth shall move out of its place , in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts , and in the day of His fierce anger . * And it shall be as a driven gazelle , and as a sheep that no man takes up ; each man shall look to his own people , and each one flee into his own land . * Everyone who is found shall be thrust through ; and everyone who is joined [to them ] shall fall by the sword . * And their children shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes ; their houses shall be robbed , and their wives raped . * Behold , I will stir up the Medes against them , who shall not value silver ; and they shall not delight in gold . * And bows shall dash the young men to pieces ; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb ; their eye shall not pity sons . * And Babylon , the glory of kingdoms , the majestic beauty of the Chaldees , shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah . * It shall never be inhabited forever , nor shall it be lived in from generation to generation ; nor shall the Arabian pitch his tent there ; nor shall the shepherds make their [flocks ] lie down there . * But the wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of howling creatures ; and ostriches shall dwell there , and he-goats shall dance there . * And hyenas shall cry along with his widows , and jackals in palaces of delight . Yea , her time is coming near , and her days shall not be prolonged .

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