Isaiah 13:9-22 - God's Judgment Against Babylon
9 For lo, the day of the LORD shall come: terrible, full of indignation and wrath, to make the land waste, and to root out the sinners thereof. 10 For the stars and planets of heaven shall not give their light; the sun shall be quenched in the rising, and the moon will not shine with his light. 11 And I will punish the wickedness of the world, and the sins of the ungodly, sayeth the LORD. The high stomachs of the proud will I take away, and will lay down the boasting of tyrants. 12 I will make a man dearer than fine gold, and a man to be more worth than a golden wedge of Ophir. 13 Moreover, I will so shake the heaven, that the earth shall remove out of her place. Thus shall it go with Babylon in the wrath of the LORD of Hosts in the day of his fearful indignation. 14 And Babylon shall be as a hunted or chased doe, and as a flock without a shepherd. Every man shall turn to his own people, and flee each one into his own land. 15 Whoso is found alone, shall be shot through: And whoso gather together, shall be destroyed with the sword. 16 Their children shall be slain before their eyes, their houses spoiled, and their wives ravished. 17 For lo, I shall bring up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver, nor be desirous of gold. 18 Then shall young men's bows be knapped asunder. The Medes shall have no pity upon women with child, and their faces shall not spare the children.
19 And Babylon, that glory of kingdoms and beauty of the Chaldeans' honor, shall be destroyed, even as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorra. 20 It shall never be more inhabited; neither shall there be any more dwelling there, from generation to generation. The Arabians shall make no more tents there; neither shall the shepherds make their folds there any more; 21 but wild beasts shall lie there, and the houses shall be full of great owls. Ostriches shall dwell there, and apes shall dance there: 22 the little owls shall cry in the palaces, one after another, and Dragons shall be in their pleasant parlors. And as for Babylon's time, it is at hand, and her days shall not be prolonged.