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Isa_13_01 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. ~

Isa_13_02 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. ~

Isa_13_03 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, [even] them that rejoice in my highness. ~

Isa_13_04 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. ~

Isa_13_05 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, [even] the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. ~

Isa_13_06 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD [is] at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. ~

Isa_13_07 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: ~

Isa_13_08 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be as] flames. ~

Isa_13_09 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. ~

Isa_13_10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. ~

Isa_13_11 And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. ~

Isa_13_12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. ~

Isa_13_13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. ~

Isa_13_14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land. ~

Isa_13_15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined [unto them] shall fall by the sword. ~

Isa_13_16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. ~

Isa_13_17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in it. ~

Isa_13_18 [Their] bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children. ~

Isa_13_19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. ~

Isa_13_20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. ~

Isa_13_21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. ~

Isa_13_22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in [their] pleasant palaces: and her time [is] near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. ~