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For the day of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> is near.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.13.6.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">It will come as destruction from the Almighty.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.13.6.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.13.7" /> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Therefore everyone’s hands will become weak,</p><p class="poem">and every man will lose heart.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.13.8" /> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They will be horrified;</p><p class="poem">pain and agony will seize them;</p><p class="poem">they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.13.8.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">They will look at each other,</p><p class="poem">their faces flushed with fear.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.13.9" /> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Look, the day<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.13.9.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> is coming —</p><p class="poem">cruel, with fury and burning anger —</p><p class="poem">to make the earth a desolation</p><p class="poem">and to destroy its sinners.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.13.9.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.13.10" /> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Indeed, the stars of the sky and its constellations<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.13.10.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a></p><p class="poem">will not give their light.</p><p class="poem">The sun will be dark when it rises,</p><p class="poem">and the moon will not shine.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.13.10.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.13.11" /> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I will punish the world for its evil,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.13.11.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">and wicked people for their iniquities.</p><p class="poem">I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.13.11.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.13.12" /> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I will make a human more scarce than fine gold,</p><p class="poem">and mankind more rare than the gold of Ophir.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.13.12.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.13.13" /> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,</p><p class="poem">and the earth will shake from its foundations<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.13.13.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">at the wrath of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> of Armies,</p><p class="poem">on the day of his burning anger.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.13.14" /> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Like wandering gazelles</p><p class="poem">and like sheep without a shepherd,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.13.14.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">each one will turn to his own people,</p><p class="poem">each one will flee to his own land.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.13.15" /> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Whoever is found will be stabbed,</p><p class="poem">and whoever is caught will die by the sword.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.13.16" /> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Their children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.13.16.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">their houses will be looted,</p><p class="poem">and their wives raped.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.13.17" /> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Look! I am stirring up the Medes against them,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.13.17.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">who cannot be bought off with<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.13.17.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> silver</p><p class="poem">and who have no desire for gold.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.13.18" /> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Their bows will cut young men to pieces.</p><p class="poem">They will have no compassion on offspring;</p><p class="poem">they will not look with pity on children.</p></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.13.19" /> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms,</p><p class="poem">the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans,</p><p class="poem">will be like Sodom and Gomorrah</p><p class="poem">when God overthrew them.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.13.19.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.13.20" /> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>It will never be inhabited</p><p class="poem">or lived in from generation to generation;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.13.20.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">a nomad will not pitch his tent there,</p><p class="poem">and shepherds will not let their flocks rest there.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.13.21" /> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But desert creatures will lie down there,</p><p class="poem">and owls will fill the houses.</p><p class="poem">Ostriches will dwell there,</p><p class="poem">and wild goats will leap about.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.13.21.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.13.22" /> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Hyenas will howl in the fortresses,</p><p class="poem">and jackals, in the luxurious palaces.</p><p class="poem">Babylon’s time is almost up;</p><p class="poem">her days are almost over.</p></blockquote><br /><section id="footnotes-Isaiah.13" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Isaiah.13.5.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.5">13:5</a></span> Or <span class="italic">earth</span></aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.13.10.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.10">13:10</a></span> Or <span class="italic">Orions</span></aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.13.17.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.17">13:17</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">who have no regard for</span></aside><br /><section id="cross-references-Isaiah.13" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.1.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.1">13:1</a></span> Is 14:28; 15:1; 17:1; 19:1; 21:1,11,13; 22:1; 23:1; 30:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.1.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.1">13:1</a></span> Is 13:19; 14:4; 47:1–15; Jr 24:1; 50:1–51:64; Mt 1:11; Rv 14:8</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.2.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.2">13:2</a></span> Is 5:26; Jr 50:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.3.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.3">13:3</a></span> Ps 78:21,50; Ezk 5:15; 20:8</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.6.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.6">13:6</a></span> Is 2:12; 10:3; 13:9; 34:2,8; 61:2; Ezk 30:3; Am 5:18; Zph 1:7</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.6.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.6">13:6</a></span> Is 10:25; 14:23; Jl 1:15</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.8.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.8">13:8</a></span> Is 26:17; Jr 4:31; Jn 16:21</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.9.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.9">13:9</a></span> Mt 25:13</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.9.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.9">13:9</a></span> Dt 32:43</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.10.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.10">13:10</a></span> Is 34:4; Mt 24:29; Mk 13:24–25; Lk 21:26; Rv 8:12</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.11.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.11">13:11</a></span> Jr 23:2; 36:31; 44:29</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.11.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.11">13:11</a></span> Is 2:11; 23:9; Dn 5:22–23</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.12.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.12">13:12</a></span> 1Kg 9:28; Jb 28:16; Ps 45:9</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.13.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.13">13:13</a></span> Ps 18:7; Is 2:19; 24:1,19–20; Hg 2:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.14.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.14">13:14</a></span> 1Kg 22:17; Mt 9:36; Mk 6:34; 1Pt 2:25</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.16.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.16">13:16</a></span> Ps 137:8–9; Is 13:18; 14:21; Hs 10:14; Nah 3:10</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.17.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.17">13:17</a></span> Jr 51:11; Dn 5:28</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.19.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.19">13:19</a></span> Gn 19:24; Jr 14:18; 50:40; Am 4:11</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.20.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.20">13:20</a></span> Is 14:23; 34:10–15; Jr 51:37–43</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.13.21.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.13.21">13:21</a></span> Is 34:11–15; Zph 2:14; Rv 18:2</aside><br /><section id="study-notes-Isaiah.13" class="snSection"><br /></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Christian Standard Bible. 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