Isaiah 13 – New International Version (NIV)
A Prophecy Against Babylon
- A prophecy against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:
- Raise a banner on a bare hilltop, shout to them; beckon to them to enter the gates of the nobles.
- I have commanded those I prepared for battle; I have summoned my warriors to carry out my wrath— those who rejoice in my triumph.
- Listen, a noise on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations massing together! The Lord Almighty is mustering an army for war.
- They come from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—the Lord and the weapons of his wrath—to destroy the whole country.
- Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty.[a]
- Because of this, all hands will go limp, every heart will melt with fear.
- Terror will seize them, pain and anguish will grip them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look aghast at each other, their faces aflame.
- See, the day of the Lord is coming —a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger—to make the land desolate and destroy the sinners within it.
- The stars of heaven and their constellations will not show their light. The rising sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light.
- I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will humble the pride of the ruthless.
- I will make people scarcer than pure gold, more rare than the gold of Ophir.
- Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the Lord Almighty, in the day of his burning anger.
- Like a hunted gazelle, like sheep without a shepherd, they will all return to their own people, they will flee to their native land.
- Whoever is captured will be thrust through; all who are caught will fall by the sword.
- Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives violated.
- See, I will stir up against them the Medes, who do not care for silver and have no delight in gold.
- Their bows will strike down the young men; they will have no mercy on infants, nor will they look with compassion on children.
- Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the pride and glory of the Babylonians,[b] will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
- She will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations; there no nomads will pitch their tents, there no shepherds will rest their flocks.
- But desert creatures will lie there, jackals will fill her houses; there the owls will dwell, and there the wild goats will leap about.
- Hyenas will inhabit her strongholds, jackals her luxurious palaces. Her time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.
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Isaiah 13 – King James Version (KJV)
Concerning the Nations
- The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
- 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.
- I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
- 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.
- 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.
- Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
- Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
- 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.
- 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.
- Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
- Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
- Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
- Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
- And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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