Isaiah:13-14

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* The doom of Babylon , which Isaiah Amoz ’ son foresaw . * Upon a high mountain lift ye up a banner , raise high your voice unto them , wave the hand , that they may enter into the gates of the princes . * I have charged my prepared ones , I have also called my heroes for my anger , those that rejoice in my highness . * There is a noise of tumult on the mountains , like that of a numerous people ; a noise of shouting of kingdoms of nations assembled ; the Lord of hosts mustereth a host of battle . * They are coming from a far –off country , from the end of the heavens , the Lord , with the weapons of his indignation , to destroy all the land . * Wail ye ; for nigh is the day of the Lord ; like wasting from the Almighty shall it come . * Therefore all hands shall become weak , and every mortal ’s heart shall melt ; * And they shall be affrighted , pangs and pains shall seize on them ; they shall have throes as a woman that travaileth ; one at the other shall they look amazed ; red like flames shall their faces glow . * Behold , the day of the Lord cometh , direful , with wrath and the fierceness of anger , to render the earth desolate : and its sinners will he destroy out of it . * For the stars of the heavens and their constellations shall not give forth their light : the sun shall be darkened in his going forth , and the moon shall not shed abroad her light . * And I will visit on the world its evil , and on the wicked their iniquity ; and I will stop the arrogance of the presumptuous , and the haughtiness of the tyrants will I humble . * I will make the mortal more precious than fine gold ; and man , more than the valued metal of Ophir . * Therefore will I shake the heavens , and the earth shall start quaking out of her place , at the wrath of the Lord of hosts , and on the day of his fierce anger . * And the people shall be as the chased roe , and as flocks which no one gathereth up ; every man to his own people shall they turn , and every man into his own land shall they flee . * Every one that is found shall be thrust through ; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword . * And their babes shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes : spoiled shall be their houses , and their wives ravished . * Behold , I will stir up against them the Medes ; who will not regard silver , and who will not delight in gold . * And their bows will dash young men to pieces ; and on the fruit of the womb will they have no mercy ; on children their eye will not look with pity . * And shall Babylon , the glory of kingdoms , the proud ornament of the Chaldeans , become like the overthrow through God of Sodom and Gomorrah . * It shall not be inhabited for ever , and it shall not be dwelt in from generation to generation ; nor shall the Arabian pitch there his tent ; and shepherds shall not let their flocks rest there . * But there shall rest the wild beasts of the desert ; and their houses shall be full of owls ; and ostriches shall dwell there , and evil spirits shall dance there . * And jackals shall howl in her palaces , and monsters in the temples of pleasure ; and near to come is her time , and her days shall not be extended . * For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob , and will again make choice of Israel , and replace them in their own land : and the strangers shall be joined unto them , and they shall attach themselves to the house of Jacob . * And nations shall take them , and bring them to their own place ; but the house of Israel shall obtain possession of them in the land of the Lord for men –servants and for maid –servants ; and they shall take captive their captors , and they shall rule over their oppressors . * And it shall come to pass on the day when the Lord will give thee rest from thy trouble , and from thy vexation , and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve , * That thou wilt take up this parable against the king of Babylon , and say , How hath ceased the oppressor ! ceased the exactress of gold ! * Broken hath the Lord the staff of the wicked , the sceptre of rulers ; * He who smote people in wrath , blows without intermission , he that ruled in anger nations , persecuting without restraint . * At rest , quiet is all the earth ; men break forth into loud song . * Also , the fir –trees rejoice at thee , the cedars of Lebanon , "Since thou wast laid low , no feller is come up against us ." * The nether world from below is in motion concerning thee to meet thee at thy coming : it stirreth up the departed for thee , all the chief ones of the earth ; it hath caused to rise up from their thrones all the kings of nations . * They all will commence and say unto thee , "Thou ––thou also art become weak like us ; similar unto us art thou become !" * Into the nether world is brought down thy pride , the clatter of thy psalteries : beneath thee is spread the worm , and thy cover is the moth . * How art thou fallen from heaven , O morning –star , son of the dawn ! how art thou hewn down to the ground , crusher of nations ! * And thou ––thou hadst said in thy heart , "Into heaven will I ascend , above the stars of God will I exalt my throne ; and I will sit also upon the mount of the assembly , in the farthest end of the north ; * I will ascend above the heights of the clouds ; I will be equal to the Most High ." * But into the nether world shalt thou be brought down , into the lowest depth . * They that see thee will gaze at thee , will regard thee well , "Is this the man that caused the earth to tremble , that made kingdoms quake ? * That rendered the world as a wilderness , and pulled down its cities : never opened the prison –house of his prisoners ?" * All the kings of nations , all of them , lie in glory , every one in his own house . * But thou ––thou art cast out of thy grave like a discarded offshoot , as a garment of those that are slain , pierced by the sword , that go down to the stones of the pit , as a carcass trodden under foot . * Thou shalt not be united with them in burial ; because thy land hast thou destroyed , thy people hast thou slain : to eternity shall not be called the seed of evil –doers . * Prepare for his children the slaughter , for the iniquity of their fathers : that they may not rise , and possess the land , and fill the face of the world with enemies . * And I will rise up against them , saith the Lord of hosts ; and I will cut off from Babylon name , and remnant , and son , and grandson , saith the Lord . * I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog , and pools of water : and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction , saith the Lord of hosts . * Sworn hath the Lord of hosts , saying , Surely as I have purposed , so doth it come to pass ; and as I have resolved , so shall it occur : * To break Asshur in my own land , and upon my mountains will I tread him under foot ; then shall his yoke be removed from off them , and his burden from off their shoulders . * This is the resolve that is resolved over all the earth : and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations . * For the Lord of hosts hath resolved , and who shall frustrate it ? and it is his hand which is stretched out , and who shall turn it back ? * In the year king Achaz died was this prophecy . * Rejoice not , thou entire Palestine , because the rod of him that smote thee is broken ; for out of the serpent ’s root shall come forth an adder , and its fruit shall be a flying dragon . * And the first –born of the poor shall feed , and the needy shall rest in safety : and I will kill with famine thy root , and men shall slay thy remnant . * Wail , O gate ; cry out , O city ; thou art dissolved , O thou entire Palestine ; for from the north a smoke is coming , and there is no one solitary among those that are bidden to come . * And what will each one of the messengers of the nation answer ? That the Lord hath founded Zion ; and that therein shall find protection the poor of his people . * The doom of Moab . Truly in a night is ‘Ar of Moab plundered , it is laid waste ; truly in a night is Kir of Moab plundered , it is laid waste .

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