Isaiah 13:9-22 - God's Judgment Against Babylon

⁹ Behold! The Day of Jehovah is coming! It will be cruel, with fury and burning anger. It will make the land desolation and exterminate the sinners from it. ¹⁰ The stars of heaven and their constellations will not shine forth their light. The sun will be dark when it rises and the moon will not shine its light. ¹¹ I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will also end the arrogance of the proud. I will demean (disgrace) the arrogance of tyranny. ¹² I will make mortal man harder to find than pure gold and mankind than the gold of Ophir. ¹³ Therefore I will make the heavens tremble. The earth will shake from its place at the fury of Jehovah of Hosts in the day of his burning anger. ¹⁴ They will each turn to his own people, and each one escape to his own land just like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep without a shepherd. ¹⁵ All who are found will be pierced through. All who are captured will fall by the sword. ¹⁶ Their infant children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be plundered and their wives raped. ¹⁷ I will stir up the Medes against them. They will not value silver or take pleasure in gold. ¹⁸ And their bows will mow down the young men. They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb. Nor will they have compassion on children.

¹⁹ Babylon, the beauty (honor) (glory) of kingdoms, the majesty of Chaldean pride, will be overthrew by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. ²⁰ It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation! Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there. Nor will shepherds take their flocks there. ²¹ But desert animals will lie down there. Their houses will be full of owls! Shaggy goats (demons) will play there and ostriches will dance there. ²² Wild beasts will howl in her fortified towers and jackals in her luxurious temples. Her time also will soon come and her days will not be prolonged.