nsb - Isaiah:13

nsb@Isaiah:13:1 @ The pronouncement Isaiah the son of Amoz saw in vision.

nsb@Isaiah:13:2 @ »Lift up a standard high on the mountain. Raise your voice to them. Shake the hand so they may enter the doors of the nobles.

nsb@Isaiah:13:3 @ »I have commanded my consecrated ones. I have called my mighty warriors. My proud ones are to express my anger, those who rejoice in my majesty.

nsb@Isaiah:13:4 @ »Listen! A sound of tumult on the mountains is like that of many people! A sound of the uproar of kingdoms and nations gathered together! Jehovah of Hosts assembles the army for battle.

nsb@Isaiah:13:5 @ »They come from a far country, from the extremities of the heavens. Jehovah and his instruments of indignation come to destroy the whole land.

nsb@Isaiah:13:6 @ »Shout for the Day of Jehovah is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

nsb@Isaiah:13:7 @ »All hands will fall impaired. Every man's heart will melt.

nsb@Isaiah:13:8 @ »They will be terrified! Pains and anguish will possess them. They will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another in amazement with their faces reddened with excitement.

nsb@Isaiah:13:9 @ »Behold! The Day of Jehovah is coming! It will be cruel, with fury and burning anger. It will make the land desolation and exterminate the sinners from it.

nsb@Isaiah:13:10 @ »The stars of heaven and their constellations will not shine forth their light. The sun will be dark when it rises and the moon will not shine its light.

nsb@Isaiah:13:11 @ »I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will also end the arrogance of the proud. I will demean the arrogance of tyranny.

nsb@Isaiah:13:12 @ »I will make mortal man harder to find than pure gold and mankind than the gold of Ophir.

nsb@Isaiah:13:13 @ »Therefore I will make the heavens tremble. The earth will shake from its place at the fury of Jehovah of Hosts in the day of his burning anger.

nsb@Isaiah:13:14 @ »They will each turn to his own people, and each one escape to his own land just like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep without a shepherd.

nsb@Isaiah:13:15 @ »All who are found will be pierced through. All who are captured will fall by the sword.

nsb@Isaiah:13:16 @ »Their infant children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be plundered and their wives raped.

nsb@Isaiah:13:17 @ »I will stir up the Medes against them. They will not value silver or take pleasure in gold.

nsb@Isaiah:13:18 @ »And their bows will mow down the young men. They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb. Nor will they have compassion on children.

nsb@Isaiah:13:19 @ Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the majesty of Chaldean pride, will be overthrew by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.

nsb@Isaiah:13:20 @ »It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation! Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there. Nor will shepherds take their flocks there.

nsb@Isaiah:13:21 @ »But desert animals will lie down there. Their houses will be full of owls! Shaggy goats will play there and ostriches will dance there.

nsb@Isaiah:13:22 @ »Wild beasts will howl in her fortified towers and jackals in her luxurious temples. Her time also will soon come and her days will not be prolonged.«