Old Testament · Prophets

Isaiah chapter 13

The concerning — what Isaiah son of Amoz :On a bare hilltop, raise a . Shout to them — wave them forward through the .I myself have given the order to . I have called my , the ones who celebrate my triumph.Listen — a roar on the mountains, like a massive crowd! Listen — an uproar of kingdoms, nations gathering together! Yahweh, , is marshaling a force for war.They come from a distant land, from the edge of the sky — Yahweh and the weapons of his — to the entire earth.Wail — because the is near. It will come like destruction from .Because of this, every hand will go limp, every human heart will .They will be gripped with terror. Pain and anguish will seize them; they will . They will stare at each other, faces flushed with horror.Look — the day of Yahweh is coming, cruel, with fury and burning anger, to make the land a and to wipe its from it.The stars in the sky and their will not show their light. The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will not shine.I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their . I will crush the arrogance of the proud and bring down the swagger of .I will make people scarcer than pure gold, rarer than the .So I will make the heavens shudder, and the earth will be shaken from its place by the fury of Yahweh, Commander of angel armies, on the day his anger blazes.Like a , like a flock with no shepherd, each one will turn back to their own people, each one will flee to their homeland.Whoever is caught will be ; whoever is captured will fall by the sword.Their infants will be before their eyes; their houses will be looted, their wives violated.Look — I am stirring up against them, who don’t care about silver and have no desire for gold.Their bows will cut down the young men; they will show no mercy to newborns, no compassion for children.And Babylon — the , the proud beauty of the — will be overthrown by God like .It will never be lived in again, never inhabited through all generations. No nomad will pitch a tent there, no shepherd will rest flocks there.But will lie there, and their houses will be full of . Ostriches will live there, and wild goats will leap about.Hyenas will howl in her , and in her luxurious palaces. Her time is almost here, and her days will not be extended.