Thematic Bible

Isaiah 13:1

An oracle against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:

Isaiah 13:2

Lift up a banner on a barren mountain.
Call out to them.
Wave your hand, and they will go
through the gates of the nobles.

Isaiah 13:3

I have commanded My chosen ones;
I have also called My warriors,
who exult in My triumph,
to execute My wrath.
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Isaiah 13:4

Listen, a tumult on the mountains,
like that of a mighty people!
Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms,
like nations being gathered together!
The Lord of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.

Isaiah 13:5

They are coming from a far land,
from the distant horizon—
the Lord and the weapons of His wrath—
to destroy the whole country.

Isaiah 13:6

Wail! For the day of the Lord is near.
It will come like destruction from the Almighty.

Isaiah 13:7

Therefore everyone’s hands will become weak,
and every man’s heart will melt.

Isaiah 13:8

They will be horrified;
pain and agony will seize them;
they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look at each other,
their faces flushed with fear.

Isaiah 13:9

Look, the day of the Lord is coming—
cruel, with rage and burning anger—
to make the earth a desolation
and to destroy the sinners on it.

Isaiah 13:10

Indeed, the stars of the sky and its constellations
will not give their light.
The sun will be dark when it rises,
and the moon will not shine.

Isaiah 13:11

I will bring disaster on the world,
and their own iniquity, on the wicked.
I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant
and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.

Isaiah 13:12

I will make man scarcer than gold,
and mankind more rare than the gold of Ophir.

Isaiah 13:13

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,
and the earth will shake from its foundations
at the wrath of the Lord of Hosts,
on the day of His burning anger.

Isaiah 13:14

Like wandering gazelles
and like sheep without a shepherd,
each one will turn to his own people,
each one will flee to his own land.

Isaiah 13:15

Whoever is found will be stabbed,
and whoever is caught will die by the sword.

Isaiah 13:16

Their children will be smashed to death before their eyes;
their houses will be looted,
and their wives raped.

Isaiah 13:17

Look! I am stirring up the Medes against them,
who cannot be bought off with silver
and who have no desire for gold.

Isaiah 13:18

Their bows will cut young men to pieces.
They will have no compassion on little ones;
they will not look with pity on children.

Isaiah 13:19

And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms,
the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans,
will be like Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.

Isaiah 13:20

It will never be inhabited
or lived in from generation to generation;
a nomad will not pitch his tent there,
and shepherds will not let their flocks rest there.

Isaiah 13:21

But desert creatures will lie down there,
and owls will fill the houses.
Ostriches will dwell there,
and wild goats will leap about.

Isaiah 13:22

Hyenas will howl in the fortresses,
and jackals, in the luxurious palaces.
Babylon’s time is almost up;
her days are almost over.