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Chapter 13 |
| 1 | The burden of
Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. |
| 2 | Lift ye up a
banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that
they may go into the gates of the nobles. |
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3 | I have commanded my
sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them
that rejoice in my highness. |
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4 | The 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 mustereth the host of the
battle. |
| 5 |
They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the
LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. |
| 6 |
Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction
from the Almighty. |
| 7 | Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every
man's heart shall melt: |
| 8 | And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows
shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they
shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. |
| 9 |
Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to
lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of
it. |
| 10 |
For 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. |
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11 | And I will punish the
world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the
arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the
terrible. |
| 12
| I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a
man than the golden wedge of Ophir. |
| 13 | Therefore 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. |
| 14 | And it shall
be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every
man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land. |
| 15 |
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined
unto them shall fall by the sword. |
| 16 | Their children also shall be
dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their
wives ravished. |
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17 | Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,
which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in
it. |
| 18 |
Their 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. |
| 19
| And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
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| 20 | It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from
generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither
shall the shepherds make their fold there. |
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21 | But 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. |
| 22 | And 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. |
