Isaiah:13:1-14:23

bes@Isaiah:13:1 @ THE VISION WHICH ESAIAS SON OF AMOS SAW AGAINST BABYLON.

bes@Isaiah:13:2 @ Lift up a standard on the mountain of the plain, exalt the voice to them, beckon with the hand, open the gates, ye rulers.

bes@Isaiah:13:3 @ I give command, and I bring them: giants are coming to fulfil my wrath, rejoicing at the same time and insulting.

bes@Isaiah:13:4 @ A voice of many nations on the mountains, even like to that of many nations; a voice of kings and nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts has given command to a (note:)Lit. fighting with armour or weapons(:note) war-like nation,

bes@Isaiah:13:5 @ to come from a land afar off, from the utmost foundation of heaven; the Lord and his warriors are coming to destroy all the world.

bes@Isaiah:13:6 @ Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near, and destruction from God shall arrive.

bes@Isaiah:13:7 @ Therefore every hand shall become powerless, and every soul of man shall be dismayed.

bes@Isaiah:13:8 @ The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in travail: and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame.

bes@Isaiah:13:9 @ For behold! the day of the Lord is coming which cannot be (note:)Gr. healed(:note) escaped, a day of wrath and anger, to make the world desolate, and to destroy sinners out of it.

bes@Isaiah:13:10 @ For the stars of heaven, and Orion, and all the host of heaven, shall not give their light; and it shall be dark at sunrise, and the moon shall not give her light.

bes@Isaiah:13:11 @ And I will command evils for the whole world, and will visit their sins on the ungodly: and I will destroy the pride of transgressors, and will bring low the pride of the haughty.

bes@Isaiah:13:12 @ And they that are left shall be more precious than gold tried in the fire; and a man shall be more precious than the stone that is in Suphir.

bes@Isaiah:13:13 @ For the heaven shall be enraged, and the earth shall be shaken from her foundation, because of the fierce anger of the Lord of hosts, in the day in which his wrath shall come on.

bes@Isaiah:13:14 @ And they that are left shall be as a fleeing fawn, and as a stray sheep, and there shall be none to gather them: so that a man shall turn back to his people, and a man shall flee to his own land.

bes@Isaiah:13:15 @ For whosoever shall be taken shall be overcome; and they that are gathered together shall fall by the sword.

bes@Isaiah:13:16 @ And they shall dash their children before their eyes; and they shall spoil their houses, and shall take their wives.

bes@Isaiah:13:17 @ Behold, I will stir up against you the Medes, who do not regard silver, neither have they need of gold.

bes@Isaiah:13:18 @ They shall break the bows of the young men; and they shall have no mercy on your children; nor shall their eyes spare thy children.

bes@Isaiah:13:19 @ And Babylon, which is called glorious by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be as when God overthrew Sodoma, and Gomorrha.

bes@Isaiah:13:20 @ It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations: neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it.

bes@Isaiah:13:21 @ But wild beasts shall rest there; and the houses shall be filled with howling; and (note:)See Job strkjv@30:29; Isa strkjv@34:13, etc.(:note) monsters shall rest there, and devils shall dance there,

bes@Isaiah:13:22 @ and satyrs shall dwell there; and hedgehogs shall make their nests in their houses. (note:)See Heb strkjv@10:37; Hab strkjv@2:3(:note) It will come soon, and will not tarry.

bes@Isaiah:14:1 @ And the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and they shall rest on their land: and the stranger shall be added to them, yea, shall be added to the house of Jacob.

bes@Isaiah:14:2 @ And the Gentiles shall take them, and bring them into their place: and (note:)i. e. the Israelites(:note) they shall inherit them, and i. e. the Gentiles they shall be multiplied upon the land for servants and handmaidens: and they that took them captives shall become captives to them; and they that had lordship over them shall be under their rule.

bes@Isaiah:14:3 @ And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow and vexation, and from thy hard servitude wherein thou didst serve them.

bes@Isaiah:14:4 @ And thou shalt take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, (note:)Alex. +’and thou shalt say in that day’(:note) How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!

bes@Isaiah:14:5 @ The Lord has broken the yoke of sinners, the yoke of princes.

bes@Isaiah:14:6 @ Having smitten a nation in wrath, with an incurable plague, smiting a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared them not, he rested in quiet.

bes@Isaiah:14:7 @ All the earth cries aloud with joy:

bes@Isaiah:14:8 @ the trees also of Libanus rejoice against thee, and the cedar of Libanus, saying, From the time that thou hast been laid low, no one has come up to cut us down.

bes@Isaiah:14:9 @ Hell from beneath is provoked to meet thee: all the great ones that have ruled over the earth have risen up together against thee, they that have raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

bes@Isaiah:14:10 @ All shall answer and say to thee, Thou also hast been taken, even as we; and thou art numbered amongst us.

bes@Isaiah:14:11 @ Thy glory has come down to Hades, and thy great mirth: under thee they shall spread corruption, and the worm shall be thy covering.

bes@Isaiah:14:12 @ How has Lucifer, that rose in the morning, fallen from heaven! He that sent orders to all the nations is crushed to the earth.

bes@Isaiah:14:13 @ But thou saidst in thine heart, I will go up to heaven, I will set my throne above the stars of heaven: I will sit on a lofty mount, on the lofty mountains toward the north:

bes@Isaiah:14:14 @ I will go up above the clouds: I will be like the Most High.

bes@Isaiah:14:15 @ But now thou shalt go down to hell, even to the foundations of the earth.

bes@Isaiah:14:16 @ They that see thee shall wonder at thee, and say, (note:)See Isa strkjv@5:25(:note) This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake;

bes@Isaiah:14:17 @ that made the whole world desolate, and destroyed its cities; he loosed not those who were in captivity.

bes@Isaiah:14:18 @ All the kings of the nations lie in honour, every man in his house.

bes@Isaiah:14:19 @ But thou shalt be cast forth on the mountains, as a loathed carcase, with many dead who have been pierced with swords, going down to the grave.

bes@Isaiah:14:20 @ As a garment defiled with blood shall not be pure, so neither shalt thou be pure; because thou hast destroyed my land, and hast slain my people: thou shalt not endure for ever, —thou an evil seed.

bes@Isaiah:14:21 @ Prepare thy children to be slain for the sins of their father; that they arise not, and inherit the earth, nor fill the earth with wars.

bes@Isaiah:14:22 @ And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will destroy their name, and remnant, and seed: thus saith the Lord.

bes@Isaiah:14:23 @ And I will make the region of Babylon desert, so that hedgehogs shall dwell there, and it shall come to nothing: and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction.

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