Isaiah 13 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Prophecies about Babylon

Isa 13:1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

Isa 13:2Set ye up an ensign upon the bare mountain, lift up the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

Isa 13:3

Isa 13:3I have commanded my consecrated ones, yea, I have called my mighty men for mine anger, even my proudly exulting ones.

Isa 13:4

Isa 13:4The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Jehovah of hosts is mustering the host for the battle.

Isa 13:5

Isa 13:5They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Jehovah, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

Judgment on the Day of the LORD

Isa 13:6

Isa 13:6Wail ye; for the day of Jehovah is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Isa 13:7

Isa 13:7Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:

Isa 13:8

Isa 13:8and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces shall be faces of flame.

Isa 13:9

Isa 13:9Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

Isa 13:10

Isa 13:10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.

Isa 13:11

Isa 13:11And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Isa 13:12

Isa 13:12I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of Ophir.

Isa 13:13

Isa 13:13Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

Isa 13:14

Isa 13:14And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathereth, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.

Isa 13:15

Isa 13:15Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword.

Isa 13:16

Isa 13:16Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.

Babylon Will Fall to the Medes

Isa 13:17

Isa 13:17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

Isa 13:18

Isa 13:18And their bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

Isa 13:19

Isa 13:19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isa 13:20

Isa 13:20It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there.

Isa 13:21

Isa 13:21But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.

Isa 13:22

Isa 13:22And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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