Isaiah 13 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Proclamation Against Babylon

The Doom of Babylon Predicted

Isa 13:1The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

Isa 13:2“Lift up a banner on the high mountain,
Raise your voice to them;
Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

Isa 13:3

Isa 13:3I have commanded My sanctified ones;
I have also called My mighty ones for My anger—
Those who rejoice in My exaltation.”

Isa 13:4

Isa 13:4The noise of a multitude in the mountains,
Like that of many people!
A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together!
The LORD of hosts musters
The army for battle.

Isa 13:5

Isa 13:5They come from a far country,
From the end of heaven—
The LORD and His weapons of indignation,
To destroy the whole land.

Isa 13:6

Isa 13:6Wail, for the day of the LORD is at hand!
It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Isa 13:7

Isa 13:7Therefore all hands will be limp,
Every man’s heart will melt,

Isa 13:8

Isa 13:8And they will be afraid.
Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them;
They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth;
They will be amazed at one another;
Their faces will be like flames.

Isa 13:9

Isa 13:9Behold, the day of the LORD comes,
Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger,
To lay the land desolate;
And He will destroy its sinners from it.

Isa 13:10

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

Isa 13:11

Isa 13:11“I will punish the world for its evil,
And the wicked for their iniquity;
I will halt the arrogance of the proud,
And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Isa 13:12

Isa 13:12I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold,
A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.

Isa 13:13

Isa 13:13Therefore I will shake the heavens,
And the earth will move out of her place,
In the wrath of the LORD of hosts
And in the day of His fierce anger.

Isa 13:14

Isa 13:14It shall be as the hunted gazelle,
And as a sheep that no man takes up;
Every man will turn to his own people,
And everyone will flee to his own land.

Isa 13:15

Isa 13:15Everyone who is found will be thrust through,
And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

Isa 13:16

Isa 13:16Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
Their houses will be plundered
And their wives ravished.

Isa 13:17

Isa 13:17“Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not regard silver;
And as for gold, they will not delight in it.

Isa 13:18

Isa 13:18Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces,
And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
Their eye will not spare children.

Isa 13:19

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

Isa 13:20

Isa 13:20It will never be inhabited,
Nor will it be settled from generation to generation;
Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there,
Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.

Isa 13:21

Isa 13:21But wild beasts of the desert will lie there,
And their houses will be full of owls;
Ostriches will dwell there,
And wild goats will caper there.

Isa 13:22

Isa 13:22The hyenas will howl in their citadels,
And jackals in their pleasant palaces.
Her time is near to come,
And her days will not be prolonged.”

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