Noyes - Isaiah - 13

13:1  A prophecy concerning Babylon, which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.

13:2  Upon the bare mountain lift up a banner; Cry aloud to them, wave the hand, That they may enter the gates of the tyrants!

13:3  I have given orders to my consecrated ones, Yea, I have called upon my mighty ones to execute mine anger, My proud exulters!

13:4  The noise of a multitude upon the mountains, like that of a great people! The tumultuous noise of kingdoms, of nations gathered together! Jehovah of hosts mustereth his army for battle.

13:5  They come from a distant country, From the end of Heaven, Jehovah and the instruments of his indignation. To lay waste the whole land.

13:6  Howl ye, for the day of Jehovah is at hand! Like a destruction from the Almighty, it cometh;

13:7  Therefore shall all hands hang down, And every heart of man shall melt.

13:8  They shall be in consternation; Distress and anguish shall lay hold of them; As a woman in travail shall they writhe; They shall look upon one another with amazement: Their faces shall glow like flames.

13:9  Behold! the day of Jehovah cometh, Terrible, full of wrath and burning indignation, To make the land a waste, And to destroy the sinners out of it.

13:10  For the stars of heaven, and the constellations thereof, Shall not give their light; The sun shall be darkened at his going forth, And the moon shall withhold her light.

13:11  For I will punish the world for its guilt, And the wicked for their iniquity. I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud, And I will bring down the haughtiness of the tyrants.

13:12  I will make men scarcer than gold; Yea, men than the gold of Ophir.

13:13  Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, And the earth shall be shaken out of her place, In the anger of Jehovah of hosts, In the day of his burning indignation.

13:14  Then shall they be like a chased doe; Like a flock, which no one gathereth together; Every one shall turn to his own people, And every one flee to his own land.

13:15  Every one that is overtaken shall be thrust through, And every one that is caught shall fall by the sword.

13:16  Their children shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; Their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished.

13:17  Behold, I stir up against them the Medes, Who make no account of silver, And as to gold, they do not regard it.

13:18  Their bows shall strike down the young men, And on the fruit of the womb they shall have no compassion; Their eye shall not pity the children.

13:19  So shall Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The proud ornament of the Chaldeans, Be like Sodom and Gomorrah, which God overthrew,

13:20  It shall never more be inhabited; Nor shall it be dwelt in through all generations. Nor shall the Arabian pitch his tent there, Nor shall shepherds make their folds there.

13:21  But there shall the wild beasts of the desert lodge, And owls shall fill their houses; And ostriches shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.

13:22  Wolves shall howl in their palaces, And jackals in their pleasant edifices. Her time is near, And her days shall not be prolonged.