Thematic Bible
Isaiah 13:1 (show verse)
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:
Isaiah 13:2 (show verse)
Lift up a banner on a bare mountain, exalt the voice to them, shake the hand, so that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
Isaiah 13:3 (show verse)
I have commanded My holy ones, I have also called My mighty ones for anger, those who rejoice in My highness.
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Isaiah 13:4 (show verse)
The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together; Jehovah of Hosts gathers an army for the battle.
Isaiah 13:5 (show verse)
They come from a far country, from the end of the heavens, Jehovah and the weapons of His indignation, to destroy all the land.
Isaiah 13:6 (show verse)
Howl! For the day of Jehovah is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
Isaiah 13:7 (show verse)
Therefore all hands shall be faint, and every man's heart shall melt;
Isaiah 13:8 (show verse)
and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them. They shall be in pain like a woman who travails. They shall be amazed at one another, their faces like flames.
Isaiah 13:9 (show verse)
Behold, the day of Jehovah comes, cruel and with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land waste; and He shall destroy its sinners out of it.
Isaiah 13:10 (show verse)
For the stars of the heavens and their constellations shall not give light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not reflect its light.
Isaiah 13:11 (show verse)
And I will visit evil on the world, and their iniquity on the wicked. And I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the pride of tyrants.
Isaiah 13:12 (show verse)
I will make a man more precious than gold; even a man than the fine gold of Ophir.
Isaiah 13:13 (show verse)
So I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall move out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts, and in the day of His fierce anger.
Isaiah 13:14 (show verse)
And it shall be as a driven gazelle, and as a sheep that no man takes up; each man shall look to his own people, and each one flee into his own land.
Isaiah 13:15 (show verse)
Everyone who is found shall be thrust through; and everyone who is joined to them shall fall by the sword.
Isaiah 13:16 (show verse)
And their children shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be robbed, and their wives raped.
Isaiah 13:17 (show verse)
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not value silver; and they shall not delight in gold.
Isaiah 13:18 (show verse)
And bows shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not pity sons.
Isaiah 13:19 (show verse)
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the majestic beauty of the Chaldees, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Isaiah 13:20 (show verse)
It shall never be inhabited forever, nor shall it be lived in from generation to generation; nor shall the Arabian pitch his tent there; nor shall the shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
Isaiah 13:21 (show verse)
But the wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of howling creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and he-goats shall dance there.
Isaiah 13:22 (show verse)
And hyenas shall cry along with his widows, and jackals in palaces of delight. Yea, her time is coming near, and her days shall not be prolonged.