Isaiah, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
{13:2} Set up an ensign on the bare mountain, lift up the voice to
them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
{13:3} I have commanded my consecrated ones, yes, I have called my
mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones. {13:4} The
noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise
of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh
of Hosts is mustering the host for the battle. {13:5} They come from a
far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the
weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. {13:6} Wail;
for the day of Yahweh is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty
shall it come. {13:7} Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every
heart of man shall melt: {13:8} and they shall be dismayed; pangs and
sorrows shall take hold [of them]; they shall be in pain as a woman in
travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces
[shall be] faces of flame. {13:9} Behold, the day of Yahweh comes,
cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and
to destroy the sinners of it out of it. {13:10} For the stars of the
sky and the constellations of it shall not give their light; the sun
shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its
light to shine. {13:11} I will punish the world for [their] evil, and
the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogance of the
proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
{13:12} I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than
the pure gold of Ophir. {13:13} Therefore I will make the heavens to
tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath
of Yahweh of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. {13:14} It
shall happen, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man
gathers, they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee
every man to his own land. {13:15} Everyone who is found shall be
thrust through; and everyone who is taken shall fall by the sword.
{13:16} Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their
eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished. {13:17}
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard
silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. {13:18} [Their]
bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity
on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children. {13:19}
Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride,
shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. {13:20} It shall
never be inhabited, neither shall it be lived in from generation to
generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall
shepherds make their flocks to lie down there. {13:21} But wild
animals of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full
of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats
shall dance there. {13:22} Wolves shall cry in their castles, and
jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her
days shall not be prolonged.
{14:1} For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose
Israel, and set them in their own land: and the foreigner shall join
himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. {14:2}
The peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the
house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Yahweh for servants
and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose captives
they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. {14:3} It shall
happen in the day that Yahweh shall give you rest from your sorrow,
and from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were
made to serve, {14:4} that you shall take up this parable against the
king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden
city ceased! {14:5} Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the
scepter of the rulers; {14:6} who struck the peoples in wrath with a
continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution
that none restrained. {14:7} The whole earth is at rest, [and] is
quiet: they break forth into singing. {14:8} Yes, the fir trees
rejoice at you, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since you are
laid low, no lumberjack is come up against us. {14:9} Sheol from
beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the
dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up
from their thrones all the kings of the nations. {14:10} All they
shall answer and tell you, Are you also become weak as we? are you
become like us? {14:11} Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, [and] the
noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and worms cover
you. {14:12} How you are fallen from heaven, day-star, son of the
morning! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
{14:13} You said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will
exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit on the mountain
of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north; {14:14} I will
ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the
Most High. {14:15} Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the
uttermost parts of the pit. {14:16} Those who see you shall gaze at
you, they shall consider you, [saying], "Is this the man who made the
earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms; {14:17} who made the world as a
wilderness, and overthrew the cities of it; who didn't let loose his
prisoners to their home?"
{14:18} All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory,
everyone in his own house. {14:19} But you are cast forth away from
your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are
thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit;
as a dead body trodden under foot. {14:20} You shall not be joined
with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have
killed your people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named forever.
{14:21} Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their
fathers, that they not rise up, and possess the earth, and fill the
surface of the world with cities. {14:22} I will rise up against them,
says Yahweh of Hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and
son and son's son, says Yahweh. {14:23} I will also make it a
possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will sweep it
with the broom of destruction, says Yahweh of Hosts. {14:24} Yahweh of
Hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so shall it
happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: {14:25} that I will
break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains tread him under
foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart
from off their shoulder. {14:26} This is the purpose that is purposed
on the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out on all
the nations. {14:27} For Yahweh of Hosts has purposed, and who shall
annul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
{14:28} In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden. {14:29} Don't
rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is
broken; for out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and
his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. {14:30} The firstborn of
the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety; and I
will kill your root with famine, and your remnant shall be killed.
{14:31} Howl, gate; cry, city; you are melted away, Philistia, all of
you; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and there is no
straggler in his ranks. {14:32} What then shall one answer the
messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her
shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.
{15:1} The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste,
[and] brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste,
[and] brought to nothing. {15:2} They are gone up to Bayith, and to
Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab wails over Nebo, and over
Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off. {15:3}
In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their
housetops, and in their broad places, everyone wails, weeping
abundantly. {15:4} Heshbon cries out, and Elealeh; their voice is
heard even to Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his
soul trembles within him. {15:5} My heart cries out for Moab; her
nobles [flee] to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for by the ascent of
Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise
up a cry of destruction. {15:6} For the waters of Nimrim shall be
desolate; for the grass is withered away, the tender grass fails,
there is no green thing. {15:7} Therefore the abundance they have
gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away over
the brook of the willows. {15:8} For the cry is gone round about the
borders of Moab; the wailing of it to Eglaim, and the wailing of it to
Beer-elim. {15:9} For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I
will bring yet more on Dimon, a lion on them of Moab that escape, and
on the remnant of the land.
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