|
Chapter 13 |
1 | The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son
of Amoz did see. |
2 |
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. |
3 | I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have
also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my
highness. |
4 | 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. |
5 | 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. |
6 | Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at
hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. |
7 | Therefore shall all hands be faint, and
every man's heart shall melt: |
8 |
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. |
9 | 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. |
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.
Matt 24:29
Mark 13:25
Luke 21:26
|
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. |
12 |
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the
golden wedge of Ophir. |
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. |
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. |
15 |
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is
joined unto them shall fall by the sword. |
16 | Their
children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses
shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. |
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. |
18 |
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity
on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children. |
19 |
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees'
excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. |
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. |
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. |
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. |