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74 lines
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# Chapter 13
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1 The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
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2 “Lift up a banner on the high mountain,
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Raise your voice to them;
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Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.
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3 I have commanded My sanctified ones;
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I have also called My mighty ones for My anger—
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Those who rejoice in My exaltation.”
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4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains,
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Like that of many people!
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A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together!
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The Lord of hosts musters
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The army for battle.
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5 They come from a far country,
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From the end of heaven—
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The Lord and His weapons of indignation,
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To destroy the whole land.
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6 Wail, for the day of the Lord is at hand!
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It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
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7 Therefore all hands will be limp,
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Every man’s heart will melt,
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8 And they will be afraid.
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Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them;
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They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth;
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They will be amazed at one another;
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Their faces will be like flames.
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9 Behold, the day of the Lord comes,
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Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger,
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To lay the land desolate;
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And He will destroy its sinners from it.
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10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations
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Will not give their light;
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The sun will be darkened in its going forth,
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And the moon will not cause its light to shine.
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11 “I will punish the world for its evil,
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And the wicked for their iniquity;
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I will halt the arrogance of the proud,
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And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
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12 I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold,
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A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.
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13 Therefore I will shake the heavens,
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And the earth will move out of her place,
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In the wrath of the Lord of hosts
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And in the day of His fierce anger.
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14 It shall be as the hunted gazelle,
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And as a sheep that no man takes up;
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Every man will turn to his own people,
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And everyone will flee to his own land.
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15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through,
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And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
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16 Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
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Their houses will be plundered
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And their wives ravished.
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17 “Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,
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Who will not regard silver;
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And as for gold, they will not delight in it.
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18 Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces,
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And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
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Their eye will not spare children.
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19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,
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The beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride,
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Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
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20 It will never be inhabited,
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Nor will it be settled from generation to generation;
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Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there,
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Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.
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21 But wild beasts of the desert will lie there,
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And their houses will be full of owls;
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Ostriches will dwell there,
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And wild goats will caper there.
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22 The hyenas will howl in their citadels,
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And jackals in their pleasant palaces.
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Her time is near to come,
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And her days will not be prolonged.” |