13Isaiah 13

CHAP. XIII. / 1 God mustereth the armies of his wrath. 6 He threatneth to destroy Babylon by the Medes. 19 The desolation of Babylon.

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

2Lift yee vp a banner vpon the high mountaine, exalt the voice vnto them, shake the hand, that they may goe into the gates of the nobles.Select Isaiah 13:2

3I haue commanded my sanctified ones: I haue also called my mightie ones for mine anger, euen them that reioyce in my highnesse.Select Isaiah 13:3

4The noise of a multitude in the mountaines, like as of a great people: a tumultuous noise of the kingdomes of nations gathered together: the Lord of hostes mustereth the hoste of the battell.Select Isaiah 13:4

5They come from a farre countrey from the end of heauen, euen the Lord and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.Select Isaiah 13:5

6Howle yee; 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 bee faint, and euery mans heart shall melt.Select Isaiah 13:7

8And they shalbe afraid: pangs and sorrowes shall take hold of them, they shalbe in paine as a woman that trauelleth: they shalbe amazed one at another, their faces shalbe as flames.Select Isaiah 13:8

9Behold, the day of the Lord commeth, cruell 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 starres of heauen, and the constellations thereof shall not giue their light: the sunne shalbe darkened in his going forth, and the moone shall not cause her light to shine.Select Isaiah 13:10

11And I will punish the world for their euill, and the wicked for their iniquitie; and I will cause the arrogancie of the proud to cease, and will lay low the hautinesse of the terrible.Select Isaiah 13:11

12I will make a man more pretious then fine gold; euen a man then the golden wedge of Ophir.Select Isaiah 13:12

13Therefore I will shake the heauens, and the earth shall remoue out of her place in the wrath of the Lord of hostes, and in the day of his fierce anger.Select Isaiah 13:13

14And it shalbe as the chased Roe, and as a sheepe that no man taketh vp: they shall euery man turne to his owne people, and flee euery one into his owne land.Select Isaiah 13:14

15Euery one that is found shall be thrust through: and euery one that is ioyned vnto them, shall fall by the sword.Select Isaiah 13:15

16Their children also shalbe dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses shalbe spoiled, & their wiues rauished.Select Isaiah 13:16

17Beholde, I will stirre vp the Medes against them, which shall not regard siluer, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.Select Isaiah 13:17

18Their bowes also shall dash the yong men to pieces, and they shall haue no pitie on the fruit of the wombe; their eye shall not spare children.Select Isaiah 13:18

19And Babylon the glory of kingdomes, the beautie of the Chaldees excellencie, shall be as when God ouerthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.Select Isaiah 13:19

20It shall neuer be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, neither shal the shepheards make their fold there.Select Isaiah 13:20

21But wilde beastes of the desert shall lye there, and their houses shalbe full of dolefull creatures, and owles shall dwell there, and Satyres shall daunce there.Select Isaiah 13:21

22And the wilde beastes of the Ilands shal cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is neere to come, and her dayes shall not be prolonged.Select Isaiah 13:22