13Isaiah 13

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

2Lift you up a banner on the high mountain, exalt the voice to them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.Select Isaiah 13:2

3I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.Select Isaiah 13:3

4The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts musters the host of the battle.Select Isaiah 13:4

5They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. ¶Select Isaiah 13:5

6Howl you; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.Select Isaiah 13:6

7Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:Select Isaiah 13:7

8And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travails: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.Select Isaiah 13:8

9Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.Select Isaiah 13:9

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

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

12I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.Select Isaiah 13:12

13Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.Select Isaiah 13:13

14And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man takes up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.Select Isaiah 13:14

15Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined to them shall fall by the sword.Select Isaiah 13:15

16Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.Select Isaiah 13:16

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

18Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children. ¶Select Isaiah 13:18

19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.Select Isaiah 13:19

20It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelled in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.Select Isaiah 13:20

21But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.Select Isaiah 13:21

22And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.Select Isaiah 13:22