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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Isaiah 13 Douay-Rheims Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="/bmcc/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="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">DRB</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Douay-Rheims Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">A Judgment against Babylon</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The burden of Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amos saw.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a banner, exalt the voice, lift up the hand, and let the rulers go into the gates.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I have commanded my sanctified ones, and have called my strong ones in my wrath, them that rejoice in my glory.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as it were of many people, the noise of the sound of kings, of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts hath given charge to the troops of war.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>To them that come from a country afar off, from the end of heaven: the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy the whole land.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it shall come as a destruction from the Lord.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall melt,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And shall be broken. Gripings and pains, shall take hold of them, they shall be in pain as a woman in labour. Every one shall be amazed at his neighbour, their countenances shall be as faces burnt.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Behold, the day of the Lord shall come, a cruel day, and full of indignation, and of wrath, and fury, to lay the land desolate, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For the stars of heaven, and their brightness shall not display their light: the sun shall be darkened in his rising, and the moon shall not shine with her light.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I will visit the evils of the world, and against the wicked for their iniquity: and I will make the pride of infidels to cease, and will bring down the arrogancy of the mighty.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>A man shall be more precious than gold, yea a man than the finest of gold.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For this I will trouble the heaven: and the earth shall be moved out of her place, for the indignation of the Lord of hosts, and for the day of his fierce wrath.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And they shall be as a doe fleeing away, and as a sheep: and there shall be none to gather them together: every man shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Every one that shall be found, shall be slain: and every one that shall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Their inhabitants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be ravished.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek silver, nor desire gold:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall have no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not spare their sons.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And that Babylon, glorious among kingdoms, the famous pride of the Chaldeans, shall be even as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>It shall no more be inhabited for ever, and it shall not be founded unto generation and generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch his tents there, nor shall shepherds rest there.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But wild beasts shall rest there, and their houses shall be filled with serpents, and ostriches shall dwell there, and the hairy ones shall dance there:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/catholic/isaiah/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And owls shall answer one another there, in the houses thereof, and sirens in the temples of pleasure.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Douay Rheims Version - Bishop Challoner Revision<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/12.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 12"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 12" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/14.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 14"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 14" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>