Isaiah 13
The Oracle concerning
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The burden of Babylon, Is. 47.1-15 · Jer. 50.1--51.64 which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
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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.
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I have commanded my sanctified ones, I
have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them
that rejoice in my highness.
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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.
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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.
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Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction
from the Almighty. Joel 1.15
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Therefore shall all hands be faint, and
every man's heart shall melt:
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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.
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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.
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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. Mt. 24.29 · Mk. 13.24, 25 · Lk. 21.25 · Rev. 6.12, 13 ; 8.12
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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.
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I will make a man more precious than fine
gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
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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.
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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.
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Every one that is found shall be thrust
through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by
the sword.
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Their children also shall be dashed to
pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their
wives ravished.
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Behold, I will stir up the Medes
against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold,
they shall not delight in it.
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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.
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And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the
beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew
Sodom and Gomorrah. Gen. 19.24
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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.
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But wild beasts of the desert shall lie
there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; Rev.
18.2 and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance
there.
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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.
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