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Prophecy Against Babylon
13:1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of
Amoz did see.
13:2 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.
13:3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also
called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice
in my highness.
13:4 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.
13:5 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.
13:6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall
come as a destruction from the Almighty.
13:7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's
heart shall melt:
13:8 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.
13:9 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.
13:10 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.
13:11 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.
13:12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even
a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13:13 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.
13:14 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.
13:15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and
every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
13:16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before
their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives
ravished.
13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which
shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not
delight in it.
13:18 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.
13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom
and Gomorrah.
13:20 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.
13:21 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.
13:22 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. |
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