Yesha`yahu, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} The burden of Bavel, which Yesha`yahu the son of Amotz 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! the LORD
of Hosts is mustering the host 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; as destruction from
[1>]Shaddai[<1] 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 the LORD 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 Ofir. {13:13} Therefore I
will make the heavens to tremble, and the [2>]eretz[<2] shall 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 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 Madai 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} Bavel, the glory of kingdoms,
the beauty of the Kasdim' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sedom
and `Amorah. {13:20} It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be
lived in from generation to generation: neither shall the `Arivi 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 the LORD will have compassion on Ya`akov, and will yet
choose Yisra'el, and set them in their own land: and the foreigner
shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of
Ya`akov. {14:2} The peoples shall take them, and bring them to their
place; and the house of Yisra'el shall possess them in the land of the
LORD 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 the LORD 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 Bavel, and say, How has the oppressor
ceased! the golden city 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
[1>]eretz[<1] is at rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth into
singing. {14:8} Yes, the fir trees rejoice at you, [and] the cedars of
Levanon, [saying], Since you are laid low, no lumberjack is come up
against us. {14:9} She'ol 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 [2>]eretz[<2]; 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 She'ol, [and] the noise of your viols: the worm is
spread under you, and worms cover you. {14:12} How you are fallen from
heaven, [3>]Heylel[<3], 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 [4>]Ha`Elyon[<4]. {14:15} Yet you
shall be brought down to She'ol, 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 [5>]eretz[<5] 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 [6>]eretz[<6], 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 Bavel 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: and 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 Ashshur 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 [7>]eretz[<7]; and this is
the hand that is stretched out on all the nations. {14:27} For the
LORD 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 Achaz died was this burden. {14:29} Don't rejoice, O Peleshet,
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, Peleshet, 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
the LORD has founded Tziyon, and in her shall the afflicted of his
people take refuge.
{15:1} The burden of Mo'av. For in a night `Ar of Mo'av is laid
waste, [and] brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Mo'av is laid
waste, [and] brought to nothing. {15:2} They are gone up to Bayit, and
to Divon, to the high places, to weep: Mo'av wails over Nevo, and over
Medeva; 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 El`aleh; their voice is
heard even to Yahatz: therefore the armed men of Mo'av cry aloud; his
soul trembles within him. {15:5} My heart cries out for Mo'av; her
nobles [flee] to Tzo`ar, to Eglat-Shelishi-Yah: for by the ascent of
Luchit with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonayim 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 Mo'av; the wailing of it to Eglayim, 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 Mo'av that escape, and
on the remnant of the land.
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Footnotes:
[1] {13:6} the Almighty
[2] {13:13} earth
[1] {14:7} earth
[2] {14:9} earth
[3] {14:12} day-star
[4] {14:14} the Most High
[5] {14:16} earth
[6] {14:21} earth
[7] {14:26} earth
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