Isaiah 13:15–22

¹⁵Everyone who is found will be thrust through,

And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

¹⁶Their children also will be ^udashed to pieces before their eyes;

Their houses will be plundered

And their wives ^vravished.

¹⁷“Behold, ^wI will stir up the Medes against them,

Who will not ⁷regard silver;

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

¹⁸Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces,

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

Their eye will not spare children.

^19xAnd Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,

The beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride,

Will be as when God overthrew ^ySodom and Gomorrah.

^20zIt will never be inhabited,

Nor will it be settled from generation to generation;

Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there,

Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.

^21aBut wild beasts of the desert will lie there,

And their houses will be full of ⁸owls;

Ostriches will dwell there,

And wild goats will caper there.

²²The hyenas will howl in their citadels,

And jackals in their pleasant palaces.

^bHer time is near to come,

And her days will not be prolonged.”