Thematic Bible
Isaiah 13:1 (show verse)
The oracle of Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:
Isaiah 13:2 (show verse)
Raise a signal on a bare hill, lift up [your] voice to them; wave [the] hand and may they enter [the] gateways of [the] noblemen.
Isaiah 13:3 (show verse)
I myself I have commanded my consecrated ones, I have also summoned my mighty warriors concerning my anger, the {ones who exalt over} my majesty.
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Isaiah 13:4 (show verse)
A sound, a noise [is] on the mountains, [the] likeness [of] many people! A sound of [the] roar of [the] kingdoms, of nations gathering! Yahweh of hosts [is] mustering an army for battle.
Isaiah 13:5 (show verse)
[They are] coming from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, Yahweh and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy {the whole earth}.
Isaiah 13:6 (show verse)
Wail, for the day of Yahweh [is] near; it will come like destruction from Shaddai!
Isaiah 13:7 (show verse)
Therefore all hands will grow slack, and every human heart will melt,
Isaiah 13:8 (show verse)
and they will be dismayed. Pangs and labor pains will seize [them]; they will tremble like a woman giving birth. {They will stare at one another}, {their faces flushing}.
Isaiah 13:9 (show verse)
Look! The day of Yahweh [is] coming, cruel and wrath and [the] burning [of] anger, to make the earth a desolation, and he will destroy its sinners from it.
Isaiah 13:10 (show verse)
For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not flash forth their light; the sun will keep back when it comes out, and [the] moon will not cause its light to shine.
Isaiah 13:11 (show verse)
And I will punish [the] world [for its] evil and [the] wicked [for] their iniquity. And I will put an end to [the] pride of [the] arrogant, and I will bring [the] haughtiness of tyrants low.
Isaiah 13:12 (show verse)
I will make humanity more rare than gold and humankind more than the gold of Ophir.
Isaiah 13:13 (show verse)
Therefore I will make [the] heavens tremble, and the earth will quake from its place because of the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and in the day his anger burns.
Isaiah 13:14 (show verse)
And this shall happen: like a hunted gazelle or sheep {with none to gather them}, they will each turn to his [own] people, and they will each flee to his [own] land.
Isaiah 13:15 (show verse)
Everyone who is found will be pierced through, and everyone who is carried away will fall by the sword.
Isaiah 13:16 (show verse)
And their children will be dashed into pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be raped.
Isaiah 13:17 (show verse)
Look! I [am] stirring the Medes up against them, who do not value silver and do not delight in gold.
Isaiah 13:18 (show verse)
And [their] bows will shatter young men. And they will not show mercy on [the] fruit of [the] womb; their eyes will not look compassionately on children.
Isaiah 13:19 (show verse)
And Babylon, [the] glory of kingdoms, the splendor of the Chaldeans' pride, will be like {when God overthrew} Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 13:20 (show verse)
It will not be inhabited forever, and it will not be dwelled in {forever}; and no Arab will pitch a tent there, and shepherds will not allow [their flocks] to lie down there.
Isaiah 13:21 (show verse)
But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full [of] howling creatures, and the daughters of ostriches will live there, and goats will dance there.
Isaiah 13:22 (show verse)
And hyenas will answer in its palaces, and jackals in the pleasure palaces; and its time {is coming soon}, and its days will not be prolonged.