Isaiah - Chapter 13 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 1. The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
  • 2. Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
  • 3. I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, {cf15I even} them that rejoice in my highness.
  • 4. The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
  • 5. They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, {cf15I even} the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
  • 6. Howl ye; for the day of the LORD {cf15I is} at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
  • 7. Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
  • 8. And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces {cf15I shall be as} flames.
  • 9. Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
  • 10. For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
  • 11. And I will punish the world for {cf15I their} evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
  • 12. I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
  • 13. Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
  • 14. And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
  • 15. Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined {cf15I unto them} shall fall by the sword.
  • 16. Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
  • 17. Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and {cf15I as for} gold, they shall not delight in it.
  • 18. {cf15I Their} bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
  • 19. And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
  • 20. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
  • 21. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
  • 22. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in {cf15I their} pleasant palaces: and her time {cf15I is} near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
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