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An oracle">a</a></span> that Amoz’s son Isaiah received<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:1 Lit. saw">b</a></span> about Babylon:</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Raise a banner on a bare hilltop!</p> <p class="poetry2">Cry out loud to them!</p> <p class="poetry2">Give a wave of the hand,</p> <p class="poetry2">signaling<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:2 The Heb. lacks signaling">c</a></span> for them to enter<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:2 So 1QIsaa; MT reads for them to enter; LXX lacks to enter">d</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">the gates of the nobles.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I myself have commanded my consecrated ones;</p> <p class="poetry2">I have also summoned my warriors,</p> <p class="poetry2">those who rejoice in my triumph,</p> <p class="poetry2">to carry out my angry judgments.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:3 Lit. my anger">e</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Listen! There’s a noise on the mountains</p> <p class="poetry2">like that of a great multitude!</p> <p class="poetry2">Listen! There’s an uproar among the kingdoms,</p> <p class="poetry2">like that of nations massing together!</p> <p class="poetry2">The LORD of the Heavenly Armies is mustering</p> <p class="poetry2">an army for battle.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They’re coming from a faraway land,</p> <p class="poetry2">from the distant horizon—<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:5 Lit. end of the heavens">f</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">the LORD and the weapons of his anger—</p> <p class="poetry2">to destroy the entire land.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:5 Or earth">g</a></span> </p> <p class="heading">The Day of the LORD</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Wail out loud, because the Day of the LORD is near.</p> <p class="poetry2">It will come like destruction from the Almighty!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Because of this, every hand<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:7 So 1QIsaa; MT reads all hands">h</a></span> will go limp,</p> <p class="poetry2">and every man’s courage<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:7 Lit. heart">i</a></span> will melt.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They will be terrified;</p> <p class="poetry2">pain and anguish will seize them;</p> <p class="poetry2">they’ll writhe like a woman in labor.</p> <p class="poetry2">They’ll look aghast at one another;</p> <p class="poetry2">and<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:8 So 1QIsaa; cf. LXX; 4QIsaa 4QIsab MT lack and">j</a></span> their faces will be ablaze with fear.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:8 DSS MT lack with fear">k</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Watch out! The Day of the LORD is coming—</p> <p class="poetry2">cruel, with wrath and fierce anger—</p> <p class="poetry2">to turn the entire inhabited<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:9 So LXX; 1QIsaa lacks the entire inhabited; the Heb. lacks entire inhabited">l</a></span> earth<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:9 LXX lacks earth">m</a></span> into a desolation</p> <p class="poetry2">and to annihilate sinners<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:9 So 1QIsaa LXX; 4QIsaa 4QIsab MT read its sinners">n</a></span> from it.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For the stars of the heavens and their constellations</p> <p class="poetry2">won’t shine<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:10 So 1QIsaa; MT reads beam">o</a></span> their light;</p> <p class="poetry2">the sun will be dark when it rises,</p> <p class="poetry2">and the moon won’t shine its light.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I’ll punish the world for its evil,</p> <p class="poetry2">and the wicked for their iniquity;</p> <p class="poetry2">I’ll put an end to the pomposity of the arrogant,</p> <p class="poetry2">and overthrow the insolence of tyrants.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I’ll make people scarcer<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:12 Lit. people more precious">p</a></span> than pure gold,</p> <p class="poetry2">and mankind rarer<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:12 1QIsaa MT lack rarer">q</a></span> than gold from Ophir.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore I’ll make the heavens tremble.</p> <p class="poetry2">The earth will shake from its place</p> <p class="poetry2">at the wrath of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies,</p> <p class="poetry2">at the time<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:13 Lit. in the day">r</a></span> of his burning anger.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:13 Lit. nostrils">s</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:14 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads it">t</a></span> will be like a hunted gazelle,</p> <p class="poetry2">or like sheep with no one to gather them,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:14 So 1QIsaa MT LXX; 4QIsaa reads banished ">u</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">each will turn to his own people,</p> <p class="poetry2">and each will flee to his own land.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Whoever is captured will be thrust through,</p> <p class="poetry2">and whoever is caught will fall dead, killed<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:15 So 1QIsaa; MT lacks dead, killed">v</a></span> by the sword.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Their infants will be dashed to pieces</p> <p class="poetry2">before their eyes,</p> <p class="poetry2">and<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:16 So 1QIsaa Syr; cf. LXX; 4QIsaa MT lack and">w</a></span> their houses will be looted,</p> <p class="poetry2">and their wives slept with.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:16 So 1QIsaa MTqere; 4QIsaa MT read raped; LXX reads they will take; cf. Deut 28:30">x</a></span> </p> <p class="heading">Babylon Falls</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Watch out! I’m stirring up the Medes against them,</p> <p class="poetry2">who care nothing for silver</p> <p class="poetry2">and take no delight in gold.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Their bows will dash the young men to pieces;</p> <p class="poetry2">they’ll show no pity on those not yet born,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:18 Lit. on the fruit of the womb">y</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">and<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:18 So 1QIsaa MTmss LXX; the Heb. lacks and">z</a></span> their eyes will not spare children.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Babylon, that jewel of kingdoms,</p> <p class="poetry2">the splendor and pride of the Chaldeans,</p> <p class="poetry2">will be like Sodom and Gomorrah,</p> <p class="poetry2">when God overthrew them—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>It will never be inhabited</p> <p class="poetry2">or lived in through all generations;</p> <p class="poetry2">no Bedouin<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:20 i.e. Middle Eastern nomadic herders; or Arab">aa</a></span> will pitch his tent there;</p> <p class="poetry2">no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But desert beasts will lie down there,</p> <p class="poetry2">and their houses will be full of howling creatures;</p> <p class="poetry2">there owls<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:21 Or ostriches">bb</a></span> will dwell,</p> <p class="poetry2">and goat-demons<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:21 Or satyrs; or wild goats">cc</a></span> will dance there.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Hyenas will howl in its strongholds,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:22 Lit. desolate places">dd</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">and jackals will make their dens in its citadels.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:22 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads in the citadels of luxury">ee</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">Its<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:22 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads And its">ff</a></span> time is close at hand,</p> <p class="poetry2">and its days will not be extended any further.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="13:22 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack any further">gg</a></span> </p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 13:1 Lit. <i>An oracle</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 13:1 Lit. <i>saw</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 13:2 The Heb. lacks <i>signaling</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 13:2 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>for them to enter</i>; LXX lacks <i>to enter</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 13:3 Lit. <i>my anger</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 13:5 Lit. <i>end of the heavens</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 13:5 Or <i>earth</i><br /><span class="fnb">h</span> 13:7 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>all hands</i><br /><span class="fnb">i</span> 13:7 Lit. <i>heart</i><br /><span class="fnb">j</span> 13:8 So 1QIsaa; cf. LXX; 4QIsaa 4QIsab MT lack <i>and</i><br /><span class="fnb">k</span> 13:8 DSS MT lack <i>with fear</i><br /><span class="fnb">l</span> 13:9 So LXX; 1QIsaa lacks <i>the entire inhabited</i>; the Heb. lacks <i>entire inhabited</i><br /><span class="fnb">m</span> 13:9 LXX lacks <i>earth</i><br /><span class="fnb">n</span> 13:9 So 1QIsaa LXX; 4QIsaa 4QIsab MT read <i>its sinners</i><br /><span class="fnb">o</span> 13:10 So 1QIsaa; MT reads <i>beam</i><br /><span class="fnb">p</span> 13:12 Lit. <i>people more precious</i><br /><span class="fnb">q</span> 13:12 1QIsaa MT lack <i>rarer</i><br /><span class="fnb">r</span> 13:13 Lit. <i>in the day</i><br /><span class="fnb">s</span> 13:13 Lit. <i>nostrils</i><br /><span class="fnb">t</span> 13:14 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads <i>it</i><br /><span class="fnb">u</span> 13:14 So 1QIsaa MT LXX; 4QIsaa reads <i>banished</i><br /><span class="fnb">v</span> 13:15 So 1QIsaa; MT lacks <i>dead, killed</i><br /><span class="fnb">w</span> 13:16 So 1QIsaa Syr; cf. LXX; 4QIsaa MT lack <i>and</i><br /><span class="fnb">x</span> 13:16 So 1QIsaa MTqere; 4QIsaa MT read <i>raped</i>; LXX reads <i>they will take</i>; cf. 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