Thematic Bible
Isaiah 13:1 (show verse)
An oracle against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:
Isaiah 13:2 (show verse)
Call out to them.
Wave your hand, and they will go
through the gates of the nobles.
Isaiah 13:3 (show verse)
I have also called My warriors,
who exult in My triumph,
to execute My wrath.
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Isaiah 13:4 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
from the distant horizon—
the Lord and the weapons of His wrath—
to destroy the whole country.
Isaiah 13:6 (show verse)
It will come like destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah 13:7 (show verse)
and every man’s heart will melt.
Isaiah 13:8 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
cruel, with rage and burning anger—
to make the earth a desolation
and to destroy the sinners on it.
Isaiah 13:10 (show verse)
will not give their light.
The sun will be dark when it rises,
and the moon will not shine.
Isaiah 13:11 (show verse)
and their own iniquity,
I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant
and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.
Isaiah 13:12 (show verse)
and mankind more rare than the gold of Ophir.
Isaiah 13:13 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
and whoever is caught will die by the sword.
Isaiah 13:16 (show verse)
their houses will be looted,
and their wives raped.
Isaiah 13:17 (show verse)
who cannot be bought off with
and who have no desire for gold.
Isaiah 13:18 (show verse)
They will have no compassion on little ones;
they will not look with pity on children.
Isaiah 13:19 (show verse)
the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans,
will be like Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.
Isaiah 13:20 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
and owls will fill the houses.
Ostriches will dwell there,
and wild goats will leap about.
Isaiah 13:22 (show verse)
and jackals, in the luxurious palaces.
Babylon’s time is almost up;
her days are almost over.