Isaiah:13:1-14
noyes@Isaiah:13:1 @ A prophecy concerning Babylon, which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.
noyes@Isaiah:13:2 @ Upon the bare mountain lift up a banner; Cry aloud to them, wave the hand, That they may enter the gates of the tyrants!
noyes@Isaiah:13:3 @ I have given orders to my consecrated ones, Yea, I have called upon my mighty ones to execute mine anger, My proud exulters!
noyes@Isaiah:13:4 @ The noise of a multitude upon the mountains, like that of a great people! The tumultuous noise of kingdoms, of nations gathered together! Jehovah of hosts mustereth his army for battle.
noyes@Isaiah:13:5 @ They come from a distant country, From the end of Heaven, Jehovah and the instruments of his indignation. To lay waste the whole land.
noyes@Isaiah:13:6 @ Howl ye, for the day of Jehovah is at hand! Like a destruction from the Almighty, it cometh;
noyes@Isaiah:13:7 @ Therefore shall all hands hang down, And every heart of man shall melt.
noyes@Isaiah:13:8 @ They shall be in consternation; Distress and anguish shall lay hold of them; As a woman in travail shall they writhe; They shall look upon one another with amazement: Their faces shall glow like flames.
noyes@Isaiah:13:9 @ Behold! the day of Jehovah cometh, Terrible, full of wrath and burning indignation, To make the land a waste, And to destroy the sinners out of it.
noyes@Isaiah:13:10 @ For the stars of heaven, and the constellations thereof, Shall not give their light; The sun shall be darkened at his going forth, And the moon shall withhold her light.
noyes@Isaiah:13:11 @ For I will punish the world for its guilt, And the wicked for their iniquity. I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud, And I will bring down the haughtiness of the tyrants.
noyes@Isaiah:13:12 @ I will make men scarcer than gold; Yea, men than the gold of Ophir.
noyes@Isaiah:13:13 @ Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, And the earth shall be shaken out of her place, In the anger of Jehovah of hosts, In the day of his burning indignation.
noyes@Isaiah:13:14 @ Then shall they be like a chased doe; Like a flock, which no one gathereth together; Every one shall turn to his own people, And every one flee to his own land.