Isaiah 13:15–22

¹⁵Every one that shall be found, shall be slain: and every one that shall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword.

¹⁶Their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be ravished.

¹⁷Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek silver, nor desire gold:

¹⁸But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall have no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not spare their sons.

¹⁹And that Babylon, glorious among kingdoms, the famous pride of the Chaldeans, shall be even as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha.

²⁰It shall no more be inhabited for ever, and it shall not be founded unto generation and generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch his tents there, nor shall shepherds rest there.

²¹But wild beasts shall rest there, and their houses shall be filled with serpents, and ostriches shall dwell there, and the hairy ones shall dance there:

²²And owls shall answer one another there, in the houses thereof, and sirens in the temples of pleasure.