Isaiah 13

Revised Geneva Translation

13 The burden of Babel, which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.

² “Lift up a standard upon the high mountain. Lift up the voice to them. Wave the hand, so that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

³ “I have Commanded those whom I have sanctified. And I have called the mighty to My wrath, those who rejoice in My Glory.”

⁴ The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, like a great people, a tumultuous voice of the kingdoms of the Nations gathered together. The LORD of Hosts numbers the army of the battle.

⁵ They come from a far country, from the end of the heaven, the LORD with the weapons of His wrath, to destroy the whole land.

⁶ Howl! For the day of the LORD is at hand! It shall come as a destroyer from the Almighty!

⁷ Therefore shall all hands be weakened. And all men’s hearts shall melt.

⁸ And they shall be afraid. Anguish and sorrow shall take them. And they shall have pain, as a woman in childbirth. Everyone shall be amazed at his neighbor, and their faces flames of fire.

⁹ Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger to lay the land waste. And He shall destroy the sinners out of it.

¹⁰ For the stars of heaven and its planets shall not give their light. The Sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

¹¹ “And I will visit the wickedness upon the world, and their iniquity upon the wicked. And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will cast down the pride of tyrants.

¹² “I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even a man above the wedge of gold of Ophir.

¹³ “Therefore I will shake the heaven, and the Earth shall move out of her place in the wrath of the LORD of Hosts, and on the day of His fierce anger.

¹⁴ “And it shall be as a chased doe, and as a sheep which no man gathers. Every man shall turn to his own people and flee to his own land.

¹⁵ “Everyone who is found shall be stricken through. And whoever is caught up, shall fall by the sword.

¹⁶ “Their children also shall be broken in pieces before their eyes. Their houses shall be spoiled and their wives ravished.

¹⁷ “Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, nor be desirous of gold.

¹⁸ “With bows, also, they shall destroy the young men and shall have no compassion upon the fruit of the womb. And their eyes shall not spare the children.

¹⁹ “And Babel, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty and pride of the Chaldeans, shall be as the destruction of God in Sodom and Gomorrah.

²⁰ “It shall not be inhabited forever, nor shall it be indwelt from generation to generation. Nor shall the Arabian pitch his tents there, nor shall their shepherds make their folds there.

²¹ “But Zijm shall lodge there. And their houses shall be full of Ohim. Ostriches shall dwell there. And the hairy goats shall dance there.

²² “And Iim shall cry in their palaces, and dragons in their pleasant palaces. And that time is ready to come. And those days shall not be prolonged.”