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13:1 |
The oracle concerning Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw.
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13:2 |
On a bare hill raise a signal, cry aloud to them; wave the hand for them to enter the gates of the nobles.
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13:3 |
I myself have commanded my consecrated ones, have summoned my warriors, my proudly exulting ones, to execute my anger.
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13:4 |
Listen, a tumult on the mountains as of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The LORD of hosts is mustering an army for battle.
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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.
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13:6 |
Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty!
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13:7 |
Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every human heart will melt,
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13:8 |
and they will be dismayed. Pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.
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13:9 |
See, 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.
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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.
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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 insolence of tyrants.
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13:12 |
I will make mortals more rare than fine gold, and humans than the gold of Ophir.
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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.
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13:14 |
Like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with no one to gather them, all will turn to their own people, and all will flee to their own lands.
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13:15 |
Whoever is found will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.
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13:16 |
Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives ravished.
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13:17 |
See, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold.
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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.
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13:19 |
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pride of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
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13:20 |
It will never be inhabited or lived in for all generations; Arabs will not pitch their tents there, shepherds will not make their flocks lie down there.
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13:21 |
But wild animals will lie down there, and its houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will live, and there goat-demons will dance.
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13:22 |
Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in the pleasant palaces; its time is close at hand, and its days will not be prolonged.
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