Isaiah 13 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Prophecies about Babylon

Isa 13:1The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

Isa 13:2On a bare hill raise a signal, cry aloud to them; wave the hand for them to enter the gates of the nobles.

Isa 13:3I myself have commanded my consecrated ones, have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger, my proudly exulting ones.

Isa 13:4

Isa 13:4Hark, a tumult on the mountains as of a great multitude! Hark, an uproar of kingdoms, of nations gathering together! The LORD of hosts is mustering a host for battle.

Isa 13:5

Isa 13:5They come from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, the LORD and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.

Judgment on the Day of the LORD

Isa 13:6

Isa 13:6Wail, for the day of the LORD is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!

Isa 13:7

Isa 13:7Therefore all hands will be feeble, and every man's heart will melt,

Isa 13:8

Isa 13:8and they will be dismayed. Pangs and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in travail. They will look aghast at one another; their faces will be aflame.

Isa 13:9

Isa 13:9Behold, 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.

Isa 13:10

Isa 13:10For 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.

Isa 13:11

Isa 13:11I 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 haughtiness of the ruthless.

Isa 13:12

Isa 13:12I will make men more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir.

Isa 13:13

Isa 13:13Therefore 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.

Isa 13:14

Isa 13:14And like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with none to gather them, every man will turn to his own people, and every man will flee to his own land.

Isa 13:15

Isa 13:15Whoever is found will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.

Isa 13:16

Isa 13:16Their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives ravished.

Babylon Will Fall to the Medes

Isa 13:17

Isa 13:17Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver and do not delight in gold.

Isa 13:18

Isa 13:18Their bows will slaughter the young men; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not pity children.

Isa 13:19

Isa 13:19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pride of the Chalde'ans, will be like Sodom and Gomor'rah when God overthrew them.

Isa 13:20

Isa 13:20It will never be inhabited or dwelt in for all generations; no Arab will pitch his tent there, no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.

Isa 13:21

Isa 13:21But wild beasts will lie down there, and its houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and there satyrs will dance.

Isa 13:22

Isa 13:22Hyenas 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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