Isaiah 13 : 1 (HCSB)
An oracle against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:
Isaiah 13 : 2 (HCSB)
Lift up a banner on a barren mountain. Call out to them. Wave your hand, and they will go through the gates of the nobles.
Isaiah 13 : 3 (HCSB)
I have commanded My chosen ones; I have also called My warriors, who exult in My triumph, to execute My wrath.
Isaiah 13 : 4 (HCSB)
Listen, a tumult on the mountains, like that of a mighty people! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations being gathered together! The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.
Isaiah 13 : 5 (HCSB)
They are coming from a far land, from the distant horizon-- the LORD and the weapons of His wrath-- to destroy the whole country.
Isaiah 13 : 6 (HCSB)
Wail! For the day of the LORD is near. It will come like destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah 13 : 7 (HCSB)
Therefore everyone's hands will become weak, and every man's heart will melt.
Isaiah 13 : 8 (HCSB)
They will be horrified; pain and agony will seize *them ; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look at each other, their faces flushed with fear.
Isaiah 13 : 9 (HCSB)
Look, the day of the LORD is coming-- cruel, with rage and burning anger-- to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners on it.
Isaiah 13 : 10 (HCSB)
Indeed, the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will not shine.
Isaiah 13 : 11 (HCSB)
I will bring disaster on the world, and their *own iniquity, on the wicked. I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.
Isaiah 13 : 12 (HCSB)
I will make man scarcer than gold, and mankind more rare than the gold of Ophir.
Isaiah 13 : 13 (HCSB)
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will shake from its foundations at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts, on the day of His burning anger.
Isaiah 13 : 14 (HCSB)
Like wandering gazelles and like sheep without a shepherd, each one will turn to his own people, each one will flee to his own land.
Isaiah 13 : 15 (HCSB)
Whoever is found will be stabbed, and whoever is caught will die by the sword.
Isaiah 13 : 16 (HCSB)
Their children will be smashed *to death before their eyes; their houses will be looted, and their wives raped.
Isaiah 13 : 17 (HCSB)
Look! I am stirring up the Medes against them, who cannot be bought off with silver and who have no desire for gold.
Isaiah 13 : 18 (HCSB)
*Their bows will cut young men to pieces. They will have no compassion on little ones; they will not look with pity on children.
Isaiah 13 : 19 (HCSB)
And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
Isaiah 13 : 20 (HCSB)
It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation; a nomad will not pitch his tent there, and shepherds will not let *their flocks rest there.
Isaiah 13 : 21 (HCSB)
But wild animals will lie down there, and owls will fill the houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
Isaiah 13 : 22 (HCSB)
Hyenas will howl in the fortresses, and jackals, in the luxurious palaces. Babylon's time is almost up; her days are almost over.
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