The burden of
Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
02 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.
03 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have
also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even
them that rejoice in my highness.
04 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.
05 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.
06 Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand;
it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
07 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every
man's heart shall melt:
08 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 shall be as flames.
09 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 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.
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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 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 as for gold,
they shall not delight in it.
18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to
pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit
of the womb; their eyes 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 their
pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come,
and her days shall not be prolonged.
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