Isaiah 13
1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
2 Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
4 The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! The LORD of Hosts is mustering the army for the battle.
5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6 Wail, for the LORD’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.
8 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.
10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
11 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.
12 I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in the LORD of Hosts’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 It will happen that like a hunted gazelle and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.
15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.
18 Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.
19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Kasdim’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
21 But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.
22 Hyenas will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
Cross-references
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- 1Isa 47:1–15, Jer 50:1–51:64, Isa 1:1, Rev 17:1–18, Dan 5:6, Dan 5:28, Isa 15:1, Isa 21:1–11
- 2Isa 5:26, Jer 51:58, Jer 50:2, Isa 45:1–3, Jer 51:25, Isa 10:32, Isa 18:3, Isa 11:15
- 3Jol 3:11, Rev 17:12–18, Jer 51:20–24, Rev 18:20–19:7, Ezr 7:12–26, Psa 149:2, Ezr 6:1–22, Isa 45:4–5
- 4Jol 3:14, Rev 19:11–21, Jol 2:25, Jol 2:1–11, Ezk 38:3–23, Isa 22:1–9, Isa 45:1–2, Isa 10:5–6
- 5Mat 24:31, Jer 50:9, Jer 51:20–46, Isa 5:26, Isa 24:1, Jer 50:3, Jer 51:11, Isa 13:17
- 6Jol 1:15, Amo 5:18, Ezk 30:2–3, Isa 13:9, Zep 1:7, 1Th 5:2–3, Rev 18:10, Zep 1:14
- 7Ezk 21:7, Ezk 7:17, Isa 19:1, Nam 1:6, Nam 2:10, Exo 15:15, Isa 10:3–4, Jer 50:43
- 8Isa 26:17, Nam 2:10, 1Th 5:3, Isa 21:3–4, Jer 50:43, Dan 5:5–6, Psa 48:5–6, Jhn 16:21
- 9Nam 1:6, Mal 4:1, Isa 13:15–18, Isa 13:6, Nam 1:2, Jer 6:22–23, Rev 17:16–17, Psa 104:35
- 10Jol 2:31, Mat 24:29, Mrk 13:24, Ezk 32:7–8, Jol 2:10, Jol 3:15, Rev 8:12, Isa 5:30
- 11Isa 2:11, Isa 5:15, Dan 5:22–23, Jer 50:29–32, Isa 2:17, Jer 51:34–38, Isa 26:21, Isa 14:12–16
- 12Isa 4:1, Isa 24:6, Job 28:16, Psa 137:9, Isa 13:15–18
- 13Heb 12:26–27, Jol 3:16, Mat 24:29, Hag 2:6–7, Nam 1:4–6, Hag 2:21–22, Rev 20:11, Isa 51:6
- 141Ki 22:17, Jer 50:16, 1Ki 22:36, Jer 51:9, Isa 47:15, Rev 18:9–10, Isa 17:13
- 15Jer 50:25, Jer 50:27, Isa 14:19–22, Jer 51:3–4, Jer 50:35–42, Isa 47:9–14
- 16Nam 3:10, Hos 10:14, Psa 137:8–9, Isa 13:18, Lam 5:11, Zec 14:2
- 17Jer 51:11, Dan 5:28–31, Jer 51:27–28, Isa 41:25, Jer 50:9, Pro 6:34–35, Isa 21:2, Isa 13:3–5
- 182Ki 8:12, 2Ch 36:17, Ezk 9:10, Isa 13:16, Ezk 9:5–6, Hos 13:16, Nam 3:10, Nam 2:1
- 19Dan 4:30, Jer 49:18, Zep 2:9, Gen 19:24, Amo 4:11, Jer 50:40, Jer 51:41, Deu 29:23
- 20Jer 51:43, Isa 14:23, Jer 51:25, Jer 50:3, Jer 50:39, Jer 51:29, Jer 50:13, Jer 50:45
- 21Rev 18:2, Isa 34:11–15
- 22Jer 51:33, Isa 25:2, Isa 35:7, Deu 32:35, Hab 2:3, Isa 34:13, 2Pe 3:9–10, 2Pe 2:3
Topics in this chapter
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Agency, Amoz, Anger, Animals, Archery, Arrogance, Astronomy, Babylon, Birth, Bow, Burden, Constellations, Cruelty, Cyrus, Darkness, Day, Earthquakes, Eclipse, God, Gold, Gomorrah, Isaiah, Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena, Money, Moon, Mountain, Muster, Ophir, Orion, Ostriches, Owl, Persia, Pride, Prophecy, Rape, Sodom, Stars, Tent, War, Wicked (People)