rsv Isaiah:13:4-18
rsv@Isaiah:13:4 @ Hark, a tumult on the mountains as of a great multitude! Hark, an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The LORD of hosts is mustering a host for battle.
rsv@Isaiah:13:5 @ They come from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, the LORD and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.
rsv@Isaiah:13:6 @ Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!
rsv@Isaiah:13:7 @ Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every man's heart will melt,
rsv@Isaiah:13:8 @ and they will be dismayed. Pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in travail. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.
rsv@Isaiah:13:9 @ Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the earth a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it.
rsv@Isaiah:13:10 @ For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising and the moon will not shed its light.
rsv@Isaiah:13:11 @ I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and lay low the haughtiness of the ruthless.
rsv@Isaiah:13:12 @ I will make men more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir.
rsv@Isaiah:13:13 @ Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, at the wrath of the LORD of hosts in the day of his fierce anger.
rsv@Isaiah:13:14 @ And like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with none to gather them, every man will turn to his own people, and every man will flee to his own land.
rsv@Isaiah:13:15 @ Whoever is found will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.
rsv@Isaiah:13:16 @ Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished.
rsv@Isaiah:13:17 @ Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold.
rsv@Isaiah:13:18 @ Their bows will slaughter the young men; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not pity children.