Isaiah, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:
{13:2} Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to
them! Wave your 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 is in the mountains, as of a great people; the
noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together!
the LORD of Hosts is mustering the army for the battle. {13:5} They
come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even the
LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
{13:6} Wail; for the day of the LORD is at hand! It will come as
destruction from the Almighty. {13:7} Therefore all hands will be
feeble, and everyone's heart will melt. {13:8} They will be dismayed.
Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman
in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will
be faces of flame. {13:9} Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel,
with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to
destroy its sinners out of it. {13:10} For the stars of the sky and
its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened
in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
{13:11} I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for
their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and
will humble the haughtiness of the terrible. {13:12} I will make
people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of
Ophir. {13:13} Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the
earth will be shaken out of its place in the wrath of the LORD of
Hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. {13:14} It will happen that
like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will
each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.
{13:15} Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is
captured will fall by the sword. {13:16} Their infants also will be
dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked,
and their wives raped. {13:17} Behold, I will stir up the Medes
against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will
not delight in it. {13:18} Their bows will dash the young men in
pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their
eyes will not spare children. {13:19} Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,
the beauty of the Kasdim' pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom
and Gomorrah. {13:20} It will never be inhabited, neither will it be
lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a
tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
{13:21} But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their
houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild
goats will frolic there. {13:22} Wolves will cry in their castles, and
jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her
days will not be prolonged.
{14:1} For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet
choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join
himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob. {14:2}
The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house
of Israel will possess them in the LORD's land for servants and for
handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were;
and they shall rule over their oppressors. {14:3} It will happen in
the day that the LORD will give you rest from your sorrow, from your
trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,
{14:4} that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon,
and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!"
{14:5} The LORD 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 out song. {14:8} Yes, the fir trees rejoice with you, with the
cedars of Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has
come up against us." {14:9} [1>]Sheol[<1] from beneath has moved for
you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all
the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the
kings of the nations. {14:10} They all will answer and ask you, "Have
you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?" {14:11}
Your pomp is brought down to [2>]Sheol[<2], with the sound of your
stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms
cover you.
{14:12} How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the
dawn! 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! I will sit on the mountain of
assembly, in the far 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 [3>]Sheol[<3], to the depths of the pit.
{14:16} Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you,
saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook
kingdoms; {14:17} who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew
its cities; who didn't release his prisoners to their home?"
{14:18} All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in
his own house. {14:19} But you are cast 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; like a dead body
trodden under foot. {14:20} You will not join them in burial, because
you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The seed of
evildoers will not be named forever. {14:21} Prepare for slaughter of
his children because of 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 the LORD of Hosts,
"and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son,"
says the LORD. {14:23} "I will also make it a possession for the
porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of
destruction," says the LORD of Hosts. {14:24} The LORD 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 tread him under foot on my mountains. Then
his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.
{14:26} This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This
is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. {14:27} For
the LORD of Hosts has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is
stretched out, and who can turn it back?"
{14:28} This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died. {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 an adder will emerge, and
his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent. {14:30} The firstborn of the
poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill
your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.
{14:31} Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all
of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in
his ranks. {14:32} What will they answer the messengers of the nation?
That the LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people
will 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 have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon,
to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba.
Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off. {15:3} In
their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets
and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly. {15:4}
Heshbon cries out with Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz.
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. Their souls tremble within
them. {15:5} My heart cries out for Moab! Her Nazirites flee to Zoar,
to Eglath Shelishiyah; for they go up by the ascent of Luhith with
weeping; for in the way of Horonaim, they raise up a cry of
destruction. {15:6} For the waters of Nimrim will be desolate; for the
grass has withered away, the tender grass fails, there is no green
thing. {15:7} Therefore they will carry away the abundance they have
gotten, and that which they have stored up, over the brook of the
willows. {15:8} For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its
wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing 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 those of Moab who escape, and on the remnant of the land.
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Footnotes:
[1] {14:9} Sheol is the place of the dead.
[2] {14:11} Sheol is the place of the dead.
[3] {14:15} Sheol is the place of the dead.
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