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Isaiah 13 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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the day of the Lord is coming which cannot be escaped, <i>a day</i> of wrath and anger, to make the world desolate, and to destroy sinners out of it.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For the stars of heaven, and Orion, and all the host of heaven, shall not give their light; and it shall be dark at sunrise, and the moon shall not give her light.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I will command evils for the whole world, and <i>will visit</i> their sins on the ungodly: and I will destroy the pride of transgressors, and will bring low the pride of the haughty.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And they that are left shall be more precious than gold tried in the fire; and a man shall be more precious than the stone that is in Suphir.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For the heaven shall be enraged, and the earth shall be shaken from her foundation, because of the fierce anger of the Lord of hosts, in the day in which his wrath shall come on.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And they that are left shall be as a fleeing fawn, and as a stray sheep, and there shall be none to gather <i>them</i>: so that a man shall turn back to his people, and a man shall flee to his own land.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For whosoever shall be taken shall be overcome; and they that are gathered together shall fall by the sword.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And they shall dash their children before their eyes; and they shall spoil their houses, and shall take their wives.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Behold, I will stir up against you the Medes, who do not regard silver, neither have they need of gold.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They shall break the bows of the young men; and they shall have no mercy on your children; nor shall their eyes spare thy children.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Babylon, which is called glorious by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be as <i>when</i> God overthrew Sodoma, and Gomorrha.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations: neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But wild beasts shall rest there; and the houses shall be filled with howling; and monsters shall rest there, and devils shall dance there,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and satyrs shall dwell there; and hedgehogs shall make their nests in their houses. It will come soon, and will not tarry.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>