Isaiah 13

13^*The ^aburden of ^bBabylon, ^cwhich Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

^2dLift ye up a banner ^eupon the ^fhigh mountain,

Exalt the voice unto them, ^gshake the hand,

That they may go into the gates of the nobles.

³I have commanded ^hmy sanctified ones,

I have also called ⁱmy mighty ones for mine anger,

Even them ^kthat ^lrejoice in my highness.

⁴The noise of ^la multitude in the mountains, ^†like as of a great people;

^lA tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together:

The Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

^5mThey come from a far country, from the end of heaven,

Even the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation,

ⁿTo destroy the whole land.

^6oHowl ye; ^pqfor the day of the Lord is at hand;

^qIt shall come ^ras a destruction from the Almighty.

⁷Therefore shall all hands ^||be faint,

And every man’s ^sheart shall melt:

⁸And they shall be afraid: ^tpangs and ^usorrows shall take hold of them;

^uvThey shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth:

They shall ^†be amazed ^†one at another;

Their faces shall be as ^†flames.

⁹Behold, ^wthe day of the Lord cometh,

Cruel both with ^xwrath and fierce anger,

To lay the land desolate:

And ^xxhe shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

¹⁰For the stars of heaven and ^ythe constellations thereof shall not ^zgive their light:

^aThe sun shall be darkened in his going forth,

And ^athe moon shall not cause her light to shine.

¹¹And I will ^bpunish the world for their evil,

And the wicked for their iniquity;

And I will ^ccause the arrogancy of the proud to cease,

And will ^dlay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

^12eI will make a man ^fmore precious than ^gfine gold;

Even a man than ^hthe golden wedge of Ophir.

¹³Therefore ⁱI will shake the heavens,

And ⁱthe earth shall remove out of her place,

In ^jthe wrath of the Lord of hosts,

And ^kin the day of his ^jfierce anger.

¹⁴And it shall be as the chased roe,

And as a sheep that no man taketh up:

^lThey shall every man turn to his own people,

And flee every one into his own land.

¹⁵Every one that is found ^mshall be thrust through;

And every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

¹⁶ⁿTheir children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes;

^oTheir houses shall be spoiled, and ^otheir wives ravished.

¹⁷Behold, ^pI will stir up ^qthe Medes against them,

^rWhich shall not regard silver;

And as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

^18sTheir bows also shall dash the young men to pieces;

And they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb;

^tTheir eye shall not spare children.

¹⁹And Babylon, ^uthe glory of kingdoms,

^uThe beauty of ^vthe Chaldees’ ^uexcellency,

^wShall be ^†as ^xwhen God overthrew ^ySodom and Gomorrah.

^20zIt shall never be inhabited,

Neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation:

Neither shall ^athe Arabian pitch tent there;

Neither shall the shepherds ^bmake their fold there.

^21cBut ^†dwild beasts of the desert shall lie there;

And their houses shall be full of ^†doleful creatures;

And ^||†dowls shall dwell there,

And ^desatyrs shall dance there.

²²And ^†dthe wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their ^||fdesolate houses,

And ^gdragons in their ^hpleasant ⁱpalaces:

And ^kher time is near to come,

And her days shall not be prolonged.