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Call loudly to them. Signal them with your hand to enter the nobles' gates.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I've commanded my holy ones. I've called my mighty men to carry out my anger. They find joy in my triumphs.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Listen to the noise on the mountains. It is like the sound of a large army. It is the sound of kingdoms and nations gathering together. The LORD of Armies is assembling his army for battle.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>His army is coming from a distant land, from the ends of heaven. The LORD is coming with the weapons of his fury to destroy the whole world.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Cry loudly, for the day of the LORD is near. It will come like destruction from the Almighty.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>That is why every hand will hang limp, and everyone's courage will fail.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They'll be terrified. Pain and anguish will seize them. They'll writhe like a woman giving birth to a child. They'll look at one another in astonishment. Their faces will be burning red.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The day of the LORD is going to come. It will be a cruel day with fury and fierce anger. He will make the earth desolate. He will destroy its sinners.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The stars in the sky and their constellations won't show their light anymore. The sun will be dark when it rises. The moon won't shine.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their wrongdoing. I will put an end to arrogant people and humble the pride of tyrants.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I will make people harder to find than pure gold and human beings more rare than gold from Ophir.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I will make heaven tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place when the LORD of Armies is angry. At that time he will be very angry.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They'll be like hunted gazelle and like sheep with no one to gather them. Everyone will return to his own people and flee to his own land.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Whoever is found will be stabbed to death. Whoever is captured will be executed.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Their little children will be smashed to death right before their eyes. Their houses will be looted and their wives raped.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I'm going to stir up the Medes against them. They don't care for silver and aren't happy with gold.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But their bows will smash the youth. They'll have no compassion for babies, nor will they look with pity on children.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the proud beauty of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God destroyed them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>It will never be inhabited again, and no one will live in it for generations. Arabs won't pitch their tents there. Shepherds won't let their flocks rest there.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Desert animals will lie down there. Their homes will be full of owls. Ostriches will live there, and wild goats will skip about.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Hyenas will howl in Babylon's strongholds, and jackals will howl in its luxurious palaces. Its time has almost come. Its days will not be extended.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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