13 Isaiah

13 Isaiah 13:1-14:27
 ¹A burden concerning the fall of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
²Lift up a banner on high mountains, raise the voice to them, wave the hand, that they may enter the gates of the princes.
³I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have called the mighty ones in my anger, even those who became strong with my excellency.

⁴The noise of tumult on the mountains, like many peoples; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together; Yahvah of hosts is performing wonders.
⁵Warriors are coming from far away, and from the end of the skies, even Yahvah and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

⁶Howl; for the day of Yahvah is at hand; it will come from almighty as a plunder which is made suddenly.
⁷Therefore all hands will be faint, and every man's heart will melt;
⁸and they will be afraid; terror and pangs will take hold of them; they will be in pain as a woman in travail; they will be amazed at one another; their faces will be as flames.

⁹Look, the day of Yahvah comes, which has no remedy, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation; and he will destroy its sinners out of it.
¹⁰For the stars of the skies and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be darkened in its rising, and the moon will not cause its light to shine. (41:24:29, 42:13:24)
¹¹And I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will bring low the haughtiness of the mighty.
¹²I will make a man more precious than gold; even a man than the gold of Ophir.
¹³Therefore I will shake the skies, and the land will be moved out of its place, in the rebuke of Yahvah of hosts, in the day of his fierce anger.
¹⁴And they will be like gazelles when they flee, and like sheep that have no one to gather them; every man will turn to his own people, and each flee to his own land.
¹⁵Everyone who is found will be thrust through; and everyone who escapes will fall by the sword.
¹⁶Their sons will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be spoiled and their wives ravished.

¹⁷Look, I will stir up the Medes against them, who have no regard for silver, and have no delight in gold.
¹⁸The bows of young men will be broken in pieces; and they will not have pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not spare sons.

¹⁹And Babylon, the glory of the kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldean's excellency, will be as when god overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
²⁰It will never be inhabited, nor will it be lived in from generation to generation, nor will the Arabians camp there, nor will the shepherds make their folds there,
²¹but wild animals will lie there; and their houses will be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches will live there, and satyrs will dance there,
²²and the screech-owls will cry in their houses, and jackals in their pleasant houses; its time is soon to come, and its days will not be prolonged.

¹For Yahvah will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and will set them in their own land; and strangers will accompany them, and they will add to the house of Jacob.
²And the Gentiles will take them and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel will possess them in the land of Yahvah for male servants and female servants; and they will take them captive, whose captives they were; and they will rule over their oppressors.

³And it will come to pass in the day that Yahvah will give you rest from your sorrow and from your anger and from the hard servitude in which you were made to serve,
⁴you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon and say, How has the ruler ceased, the zealous one ceased.
⁵Yahvah has broken the staff of the wicked and the scepter of the rulers;
⁶he who struck the peoples in wrath, striking without instruction, who chastised the peoples in anger and persecuted them without pity.
⁷The whole land is at rest and is quiet; they break forth into singing.
⁸Yes, the fir trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon saying, Since you are felled, no hewer is come up to cut us down.
⁹The grave beneath is murmuring at your coming; it stirs up against you all the mighty men, even all the rulers of the land whom you overthrew from their thrones.
¹⁰All the kings of the nations will answer and say to you, Have you also become weak as we? Have you become like us?
¹¹Your pomp is brought down to the grave, the noise of your harps is dead; the dust is spread under you, and the worms cover you.

¹²How you are fallen from the skies, son of the dawn, for you have fallen down to the ground, reviler of the nations.
¹³For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into the skies, I will exalt my throne above the stars of god; I will also live on the high mountains in the outer regions of the north.
¹⁴I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most high.
¹⁵From now on, you will be brought down to the grave, to the bottom of the pit.
¹⁶Those who see you will stare at you and consider you saying, Is this the man who made the land tremble, who shook kingdoms;
¹⁷who made the world as a wilderness and destroyed its cities; who did not free his prisoners?
¹⁸All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, each in his own house.
¹⁹But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable person, and as the raiment of those who are slain, thrust through by the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as corpses trampled under foot.
²⁰You will not rejoice with them in the grave, because you have destroyed your land and slain your people; the seed of the evildoer will never rise again.

²¹Prepare slaughter for his sons for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with war.

²²For I will rise up against them says Yahvah of hosts, and will cut off from Babylon the name, its offspring, the family, and its generation says Yahvah.
²³I will also make it a possession for owls, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction says Yahvah of hosts.

²⁴Yahvah of hosts has sworn saying, Surely as I have thought, so it will come to pass; and as I have purposed, so it will stand;
²⁵I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains tread him under foot; then his yoke will depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

²⁶This is the end that is purposed against all the land; and this is the hand that is stretched out against all the nations.
²⁷For Yahvah of hosts has purposed, and who can disannul it? And his hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

13 Isaiah 1:1
 ¹The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.