LEB - Isaiah - 13

13:1  The oracle of Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:

13:2  Raise a signal on a bare hill, lift up your voice to them; wave the hand and may they enter the gateways of the noblemen.

13:3  I myself I have commanded my consecrated ones, I have also summoned my mighty warriors concerning my anger, the ⌞ones who exalt over⌟ my majesty.

13:4  A sound, a noise is on the mountains, the likeness of many people! A sound of the roar of the kingdoms, of nations gathering! Yahweh of hosts is mustering an army for battle.

13:5  They are coming from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, Yahweh and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy ⌞the whole earth⌟.

13:6  Wail, for the day of Yahweh is near; it will come like destruction from Shaddai!

13:7  Therefore all hands will grow slack, and every human heart will melt,

13:8  and they will be dismayed. Pangs and labor pains will seize them; they will tremble like a woman giving birth. ⌞They will stare at one another⌟, ⌞their faces flushing⌟.

13:9  Look! The day of Yahweh is coming, cruel and wrath and the burning of anger, to make the earth a desolation, and he will destroy its sinners from it.

13:10  For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not flash forth their light; the sun will keep back when it comes out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

13:11  And I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. And I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and I will bring the haughtiness of tyrants low.

13:12  I will make humanity more rare than gold and humankind more than the gold of Ophir.

13:13  Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will quake from its place because of the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and in the day his anger burns.

13:14  And this shall happen: like a hunted gazelle or sheep ⌞with none to gather them⌟, they will each turn to his own people, and they will each flee to his own land.

13:15  Everyone who is found will be pierced through, and everyone who is carried away will fall by the sword.

13:16  And their children will be dashed into pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be raped.

13:17  Look! I am stirring the Medes up against them, who do not value silver and do not delight in gold.

13:18  And their bows will shatter young men. And they will not show mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not look compassionately on children.

13:19  And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like ⌞when God overthrew⌟ Sodom and Gomorrah.

13:20  It will not be inhabited forever, and it will not be dwelled in ⌞forever⌟; and no Arab will pitch a tent there, and shepherds will not allow their flocks to lie down there.

13:21  But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures, and the daughters of ostriches will live there, and goats will dance there.

13:22  And hyenas will answer in its palaces, and jackals in the pleasure palaces; and its time ⌞is coming soon⌟, and its days will not be prolonged.