KJ3 Literal Translation
Isaiah 13
Jehovah musters the armies of His wrath. He threatens to destroy Babylon by the Medes.
1The burden of Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:
2Lift up a banner on a bare mountain; make the voice rise to them; wave the hand that they may enter the gates of nobles.
3I have commanded to ones being holy to Me; I have also called My mighty ones for My anger, those exultant at My majesty.
4The noise of a multitude in the mountains, the likeness of a great people! A noise of tumult of the kingdoms of nations gathered together; Jehovah of Hosts is calling up an army for the battle.
5They come from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, Jehovah and the weapons of His wrath, to destroy all the land.
6Howl! For the day of Jehovah is near. It shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7On account of this all hands shall droop, and every heart of man shall melt;
8and they shall be afraid. Pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain like one giving birth; they shall be amazed, a man to his neighbor; faces of flames shall be their faces.
9Behold, the day of Jehovah comes, cruel and with wrath and heat of His anger, to lay the land waste. And He shall destroy its sinners out of it.
10For the stars of the heavens and their constellations shall not give light; the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not reflect its light.
11And I will visit evil on the world, and their iniquity on the wicked ones. And I will cause the arrogance of the proud ones to cease; and I will humble the pride of tyrants.
12I will make a man more rare than fine gold, and a man more than the pure gold of Ophir.
13On account of this I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall move out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of Hosts, and in the day of the heat of His anger.
14And it shall be as a gazelle driven away, and as a sheep no one gathers; each man shall look to his own people, and each man shall flee to his land.
15Everyone who is found shall be pierced through; yea, everyone who is captured shall fall by the sword.
16And their children shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be robbed, and their wives raped.
17Behold! I stir up the Medes against them, who shall not esteem silver to be valuable, and they shall not delight in gold.
18And bows shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare sons.
19And Babylon, the glory of the kingdoms, the beauty of the pride of the Chaldeans, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20It shall not be lived in forever, and not shall it be lived in to generation and generation. And the Arabian shall not pitch a tent there, nor shall those feeding make flocks lie down there.
21But the desert creatures shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of howling creatures; and daughters of ostriches shall dwell there; and he-goats shall skip there.
22And hyenas shall cry along with his widows; and jackals in palaces of delight. Yea, her time to come is near, and her days shall not be drawn out.
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