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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">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch29013" class="chapter"> <p class="sh">C. <span class="ac">Oracles Against the Foreign Nations</span><a id="rfn29013000-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29013000-1">*</a></p> <h1 id="cn29013" class="cn"></h1> <p class="pf"><span class="hemb">Babylon.<a id="rfn29013001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29013001-1">*</a></span> <span id="v29013001" class="ver">1</span>An oracle<a id="rfn29013001-2" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29013001-2">*</a> concerning Babylon; a vision of Isaiah, son of Amoz.</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v29013002" class="ver">2</span>Upon the bare mountains set up a signal;</p> <p class="sl1">cry out to them,<a id="rfn29013002-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29013002-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl">Beckon for them to enter</p> <p class="sl1">the gates of the nobles.<a id="ren29013002-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29013002-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29013003" class="ver">3</span>I have commanded my consecrated ones,<a id="rfn29013003-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29013003-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">I have summoned my warriors,</p> <p class="sl1">eager and bold to carry out my anger.<a id="ren29013003-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29013003-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29013004" class="ver">4</span>Listen! the rumble on the mountains:</p> <p class="sl1">that of an immense throng!</p> <p class="sl">Listen! the noise of kingdoms, nations assembled!</p> <p class="sl">The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> of hosts is mustering</p> <p class="sl1">an army for battle.<a id="ren29013004-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29013004-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29013005" class="ver">5</span>They come from a far-off country,</p> <p class="sl1">and from the end of the heavens,</p> <p class="sl">The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> and the instruments of his wrath,</p> <p class="sl1">to destroy all the land.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29013006" class="ver">6</span>Howl, for the day of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span><a id="rfn29013006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29013006-1">*</a> is near;</p> <p class="sl1">as destruction from the Almighty it comes.<a id="ren29013006-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29013006-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29013007" class="ver">7</span>Therefore all hands fall helpless,<a id="ren29013007-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29013007-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl1">every human heart melts,</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v29013008" class="ver">8</span>and they are terrified,</p> <p class="sl">Pangs and sorrows take hold of them,</p> <p class="sl1">like a woman in labor they writhe;</p> <p class="sl">They look aghast at each other,</p> <p class="sl1">their faces aflame.<a id="ren29013008-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29013008-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29013009" class="ver">9</span>Indeed, the day of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> comes,</p> <p class="sl1">cruel, with wrath and burning anger;</p> <p class="sl">To lay waste the land</p> <p class="sl1">and destroy the sinners within it!<a id="ren29013009-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29013009-g">g</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29013010" class="ver">10</span>The stars of the heavens and their constellations</p> <p class="sl1">will send forth no light;</p> <p class="sl">The sun will be dark at its rising,</p> <p class="sl1">and the moon will not give its light.<a id="ren29013010-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29013010-h">h</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29013011" class="ver">11</span>Thus I will punish the world for its evil</p> <p class="sl1">and the wicked for their guilt.</p> <p class="sl">I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant,</p> <p class="sl1">the insolence of tyrants I will humble.<a id="ren29013011-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29013011-i">i</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29013012" class="ver">12</span>I will make mortals more rare than pure gold,</p> <p class="sl1">human beings, than the gold of Ophir.<a id="rfn29013012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29013012-1">*</a> <a id="ren29013012-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29013012-j">j</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29013013" class="ver">13</span>For this I will make the heavens tremble</p> <p class="sl1">and the earth shall be shaken from its place,</p> <p class="sl">At the wrath of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> of hosts</p> <p class="sl1">on the day of his burning anger.<a id="ren29013013-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29013013-k">k</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29013014" class="ver">14</span>Like a hunted gazelle,</p> <p class="sl1">or a flock that no one gathers,</p> <p class="sl">They shall turn each to their own people</p> <p class="sl1">and flee each to their own land.<a id="ren29013014-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29013014-l">l</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29013015" class="ver">15</span>Everyone who is taken shall be run through;</p> <p class="sl1">and everyone who is caught shall fall by the sword.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29013016" class="ver">16</span>Their infants shall be dashed to pieces in their sight;</p> <p class="sl1">their houses shall be plundered</p> <p class="sl1">and their wives ravished.<a id="ren29013016-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29013016-m">m</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29013017" class="ver">17</span>I am stirring up against them the Medes,</p> <p class="sl1">who think nothing of silver</p> <p class="sl1">and take no delight in gold.<a id="ren29013017-n" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29013017-n">n</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29013018" class="ver">18</span>With their bows they shall shatter the young men,</p> <p class="sl">And the fruit of the womb they shall not spare,</p> <p class="sl1">nor shall their eye take pity on children.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29013019" class="ver">19</span>And Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms,</p> <p class="sl1">the glory and pride of the Chaldeans,</p> <p class="sl">Shall become like Sodom and Gomorrah,</p> <p class="sl1">overthrown by God.<a id="ren29013019-o" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29013019-o">o</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29013020" class="ver">20</span>It shall never be inhabited,</p> <p class="sl1">nor dwelt in, from age to age;</p> <p class="sl">Arabians shall not pitch their tents there,</p> <p class="sl1">nor shepherds rest their flocks there.<a id="ren29013020-p" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29013020-p">p</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29013021" class="ver">21</span>But desert demons shall rest there</p> <p class="sl1">and owls shall fill the houses;</p> <p class="sl">There ostriches shall dwell,</p> <p class="sl1">and satyrs<a id="rfn29013021-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29013021-1">*</a> shall dance.<a id="ren29013021-q" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29013021-q">q</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29013022" class="ver">22</span>Wild dogs shall dwell in its castles,</p> <p class="sl1">and jackals in its luxurious palaces.</p> <p class="sl">Its time is near at hand</p> <p class="sl1">and its days shall not be prolonged.<a id="ren29013022-r" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29013022-r">r</a></p> </div> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span 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