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ULT ISA Chapter 13

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13 An oracle for Babylon, which Isaiah son of Amoz perceived:

2 On the bare mountain raise a banner.

Lift up a voice to them. Wave a hand,

and they will go into the gates of the nobles.

3 I have commanded my holy ones;

I even called my warriors for my nose,

my proudly exulting ones.

4 The sound of a multitude in the mountains,

like a numerous people!

The sound of a tumult of the kingdoms,

nations are gathered!

Yahweh of hosts is mustering the army for the battle.

5 They are coming from a far country,

from the end of the heavens,

Yahweh, and the instruments of his judgment,

to destroy the whole land.

6 Howl, for the day of Yahweh is near;

it comes with destruction from the Almighty.

7 Therefore, all hands hang limp,

and every heart of man melts.

8 And they will be terrified;

pain and agony will seize them;

like a woman in labor, they are pained.

A man to his friend will stare in astonishment;

their faces are faces aflame.

9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes ruthlessly,

with wrath and burning nose,

to make the land a desolation

and to destroy its sinners from it.

10 For the stars of the heavens and the constellations

will not shine their light.

The sun will be darkened in its coming out,

and the moon will not emit its light.

11 And I shall charge the world its evil

and the wicked their iniquity.

And I shall put an end to the arrogance of the proud

and bring down the arrogance of the ruthless.

12 I shall cause a mortal to be more rare than fine gold

and a man, the pure gold of Ophir.

13 Therefore I shall make the heavens tremble,

and the earth will be shaken out of its place

by the fury of Yahweh of hosts

and on the day of his burning nose.

14 And it will happen, like a hunted gazelle or like a sheep with no shepherd,

every man will turn toward his people

and every man will flee to his land.

15 All who are found will be killed,

and all who are caught will die by the sword,

16 and their infants will be dashed in pieces before their eyes,

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

17 Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them,

who will not be concerned about silver,

and they will not delight in gold.

18 And the bows will strike down the young men,

and they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb,

their eyes will not have pity on sons.

19 And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be

like God destroying Sodom and Gomorrah.

20 It will not be inhabited to eternity,

or lived in from generation to generation.

And the Arab will not pitch his tent there,

and the shepherds will not make flocks rest there.

21 But desert beasts will lie there,

and their houses will be full of owls,

and daughters of ostriches will live there,

and wild goats will skip about there,

22 and hyenas will cry in their fortresses,

and jackals in palaces of luxury.

And her time is coming near,

and her days will not be delayed.