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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 13 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/13.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/13-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Isaiah 13</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/12.htm" title="Isaiah 12">◄</a> Isaiah 13 <a href="../isaiah/14.htm" title="Isaiah 14">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">God Will Punish Babylon</h3><p class="par"><span class="v23_13_1"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.1" class="v23_13_1">1</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.13.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> This is a message about Babylon, which Isaiah son of Amoz received from God.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_13_2"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.2" class="v23_13_2">2</span>On the top of a barren hill raise the battle flag! Shout to the soldiers and raise your arm as the signal for them to attack the gates of the proud city. </span><span class="v23_13_3"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.3" class="v23_13_3">3</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> has called out his proud and confident soldiers to fight a holy war and punish those he is angry with.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_13_4"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.4" class="v23_13_4">4</span>Listen to the noise on the mountains—the sound of a great crowd of people, the sound of nations and kingdoms gathering. The <span class="nd">Lord</span> of Armies is preparing his troops for battle. </span><span class="v23_13_5"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.5" class="v23_13_5">5</span>They are coming from far-off countries at the ends of the earth. In his anger the <span class="nd">Lord</span> is coming to devastate the whole country.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_13_6"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.6" class="v23_13_6">6</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.13.6!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Howl in pain! The day of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> is near, the day when the Almighty brings destruction. </span><span class="v23_13_7"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.7" class="v23_13_7">7</span>Everyone's hands will hang limp, and everyone's courage will fail. </span><span class="v23_13_8"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.8" class="v23_13_8">8</span>They will all be terrified and overcome with pain, like the pain of a woman in labor. They will look at each other in fear, and their faces will burn with shame. </span><span class="v23_13_9"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.9" class="v23_13_9">9</span>The day of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> is coming—that cruel day of his fierce anger and fury. The earth will be made a wilderness, and every sinner will be destroyed. </span><span class="v23_13_10"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.10" class="v23_13_10">10</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.13.10!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Every star and every constellation will stop shining, the sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will give no light.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_13_11"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.11" class="v23_13_11">11</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> says, “I will bring disaster on the earth and punish all wicked people for their sins. I will humble everyone who is proud and punish everyone who is arrogant and cruel. </span><span class="v23_13_12"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.12" class="v23_13_12">12</span>Those who survive will be scarcer than gold. </span><span class="v23_13_13"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.13" class="v23_13_13">13</span>I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place on that day when I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> Almighty, show my anger.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_13_14"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.14" class="v23_13_14">14</span>“The foreigners living in Babylon will run away to their homelands, scattering like deer escaping from hunters, like sheep without a shepherd. </span><span class="v23_13_15"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.15" class="v23_13_15">15</span>Anyone who is caught will be stabbed to death. </span><span class="v23_13_16"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.16" class="v23_13_16">16</span>While they look on helplessly, their babies will be battered to death, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be raped.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v23_13_17"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.17" class="v23_13_17">17</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> says, “I am stirring up the Medes<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.13.17!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> to attack Babylon. They care nothing for silver and are not tempted by gold. </span><span class="v23_13_18"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.18" class="v23_13_18">18</span>With their bows and arrows they will kill the young men. They will show no mercy to babies and take no pity on children. </span><span class="v23_13_19"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.19" class="v23_13_19">19</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.13.19!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Babylonia is the most beautiful kingdom of all; it is the pride of its people. But I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, will overthrow Babylon as I did Sodom and Gomorrah! </span><span class="v23_13_20"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.20" class="v23_13_20">20</span>No one will ever live there again. No wandering Arab will ever pitch a tent there, and no shepherd will ever pasture a flock there. </span><span class="v23_13_21"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.21" class="v23_13_21">21</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.13.21!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> It will be a place where desert animals live and where owls build their nests. Ostriches will live there, and wild goats will prance through the ruins. </span><span class="v23_13_22"><span class="reftext" id="Isa.13.22" class="v23_13_22">22</span>The towers and palaces will echo with the cries of hyenas and jackals. Babylon's time has come! Her days are almost over.”</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">13.17: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">Medes: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">People of a nation northeast of Babylonia, which became part of the Persian Empire.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p class="yiv9003199930MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Bible text from the Good News Translation (GNT) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). 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