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Prophecies about Babylon
1 The
1Aoracle concerning
BBabylon which
CIsaiah the son of Amoz saw.
2 ALift up a standard on the
1Bbare hill,
Raise your voice to them,
CWave the hand that they may
Denter the doors of the nobles.
3 I have commanded My consecrated ones,
I have even called My
Amighty warriors,
My proudly exulting ones,
To execute My anger.
4 A
Asound of tumult on the mountains,
Like that of many people!
A sound of the uproar of kingdoms,
Of nations gathered together!
The Loʀᴅ of hosts is mustering the army for battle.
5 They are coming from a far country,
From the
1Afarthest horizons,
The Loʀᴅ and His instruments of
Bindignation,
To
Cdestroy the whole land.
Judgment on the Day of the Loʀᴅ
6 Wail, for the
Aday of the Loʀᴅ is near!
It will come as
Bdestruction from
1the Almighty.
7 Therefore
Aall hands will fall limp,
And every man’s
Bheart will melt.
8 They will be
Aterrified,
Pains and anguish will take hold of them;
They will
Bwrithe like a woman in labor,
They will look at one another in astonishment,
Their faces aflame.
9 Behold,
Athe day of the Loʀᴅ is coming,
Cruel, with fury and burning anger,
To make the land a desolation;
And He will exterminate its sinners from it.
10 For the
Astars of heaven and their constellations
Will not flash forth their light;
The
Bsun will be dark when it rises
And the moon will not shed its light.
11 Thus I will
Apunish the world for its evil
And the
Bwicked for their iniquity;
I will also put an end to the
Carrogance of the proud
And abase the
Dhaughtiness of the
1Eruthless.
12 I will make mortal man
1Ascarcer than pure gold
And mankind than the
Bgold of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will make the
Aheavens tremble,
And
Bthe earth will be shaken from its place
At the fury of the Loʀᴅ of hosts
In
Cthe day of His burning anger.
14 And it will be that like a hunted gazelle,
Or like
Asheep with none to gather
them, They will each turn to his own people,
And each one flee to his own land.
15 Anyone who is found will be
Athrust through,
And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
16 Their
Alittle ones also will be dashed to pieces
Before their eyes;
Their houses will be plundered
And their wives ravished.
Babylon Will Fall to the Medes
17 Behold, I am going to
Astir up the Medes against them,
Who will not value silver or
Btake pleasure in gold.
18 And
their bows will
1mow down the
Ayoung men,
They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb,
Nor will their
Beye pity
2children.
19 And
ABabylon, the
Bbeauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans’ pride,
Will be as when God
Coverthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It will
Anever be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation;
Nor will the
BArab pitch
his tent there,
Nor will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
21 But
Adesert creatures will lie down there,
And their houses will be full of
1owls;
Ostriches also will live there, and
2shaggy goats will frolic there.
22 1Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers
And jackals in their luxurious
Apalaces.
Her
fateful time also
2will soon come
And her days will not be prolonged.