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13:1  The burden concerning Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
13:2  Lift up a banner upon the high mountain, raise the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
13:3  I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, even them that rejoice in my exaltation.
13:4  The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like that of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts musters the army of the battle.
13:5  They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
13:6  Wail you; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
13:7  Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every man's heart shall melt:
13:8  And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travails: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
13:9  Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy its sinners out of it.
13:10  For the stars of heaven and its constellations 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  And 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 ruthless.
13:12  I will make a man more rare than fine gold; even a man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13:13  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.
13:14  And it shall be as the hunted gazelle, and as a sheep that no man gathers up: every man shall return to his own people, and flee everyone into his own land.
13:15  Everyone that is found shall be thrust through; and everyone that is caught shall fall by the sword.
13:16  Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be plundered, 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 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.
13:19  And 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 dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch his tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.
13:21  But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of howling creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.
13:22  The hyenas shall cry in its towers, and jackals in their pleasant palaces: her time is near, and her days shall not be prolonged.