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Isaiah 13 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

Prophecies about Babylon

Isa 13:1

The pronouncement concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:

Isa 13:2

Lift up a flag on the [fn]bare hill,

Raise your voice to them,

Wave the hand that they may enter the doors of the nobles.

Isa 13:3

I have commanded My consecrated ones,

I have also called for My warriors

Who boast in My eminence,

To execute My anger.

Isa 13:4

A sound of a roar on the mountains,

Like that of many people!

A sound of an uproar of kingdoms,

Of nations gathered together!

The LORD of armies is mustering the army for battle.

Isa 13:5

They are coming from a distant country,

From the [fn]farthest horizons,

The LORD and the weapons of His indignation,

To destroy the whole land.

Judgment on the Day of the LORD

Isa 13:6

Wail, for the day of the LORD is near!

It will come as destruction from [fn]the Almighty.

Isa 13:7

Therefore all hands will fall limp,

And every human heart will melt.

Isa 13:8

They will be terrified,

Pains and anguish will take hold of them;

They will writhe like a woman in labor,

They will look at one another in astonishment,

Their faces aflame.

Isa 13:9

Behold, the day of the LORD is coming,

Cruel, with fury and burning anger,

To make the land a desolation;

And He will exterminate its sinners from it.

Isa 13:10

For the stars of heaven and their constellations

Will not flash their light;

The sun will be dark when it rises

And the moon will not shed its light.

Isa 13:11

So I will punish the world for its evil

And the wicked for their wrongdoing;

I will also put an end to the audacity of the proud

And humiliate the arrogance of the [fn]tyrants.

Isa 13:12

I will make mortal man scarcer than pure gold

And mankind than the gold of Ophir.

Isa 13:13

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,

And the earth will be shaken from its place

At the fury of the LORD of armies

In the day of His burning anger.

Isa 13:14

And it will be that, like a hunted gazelle,

Or like sheep with no one to gather them,

Each of them will turn to his own people,

And each of them will flee to his own land.

Isa 13:15

Anyone who is found will be thrust through,

And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

Isa 13:16

Their little ones also will be dashed to pieces

Before their eyes;

Their houses will be plundered

And their wives raped.

Babylon Will Fall to the Medes

Isa 13:17

Behold, I am going to stir up the Medes against them,

Who will not value silver or take pleasure in gold.

Isa 13:18

And their bows will [fn]mow down the young men,

They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb,

Nor will their eye pity [fn]children.

Isa 13:19

And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans’ pride,

Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Isa 13:20

It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation;

Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there,

Nor will shepherds allow their flocks to lie down there.

Isa 13:21

But desert creatures will lie down there,

And their houses will be full of [fn]owls;

Ostriches also will live there, and [fn]shaggy goats will frolic there.

Isa 13:22

[fn]Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers

And jackals in their luxurious palaces.

Her fateful time also [fn]will soon come,

And her days will not be prolonged.

NASB20 Footnotes
Or wind-swept mountain
Lit end of heaven
Heb Shaddai
Or violent
Lit dash in pieces
Lit sons
Or howling creatures
Or goat demons
Or howling creatures
Lit is near to come
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