Isaiah 13:15–22

¹⁵Everyone who is found will be pierced through,

and everyone who is carried away will fall by the sword.

¹⁶And their children will be dashed into pieces before their eyes;

their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be raped.^g

¹⁷Look! I am stirring the Medes up against them,

who do not value silver

and do not delight in gold.

¹⁸And 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.

¹⁹And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew^h Sodom and Gomorrah.

²⁰It will not be inhabited forever,

and it will not be dwelled in forever;ⁱ

and no Arab will pitch a tent there,

and shepherds will not allow their flocks to lie down there.

²¹But wild animals will lie down there,

and their houses will be full of howling creatures,

and the daughters of ostriches^j will live there,

and goats will dance there.

²²And hyenas will answer in its palaces,

and jackals in the pleasure palaces;

and its time is coming soon,^k

and its days will not be prolonged.