Isaiah 13:1-13 ▼

1 This is the burden (burden) against Babylon (confusion by mixing) that Isaiah (YHWH has saved) son of Amoz (strong) received:

2 Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

3 I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph.

4 Listen, a tumult on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations gathered together! The LORD {YHWH} of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.

5 They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD {YHWH} and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole country.

6 Wail, for the Day of the LORD {Yowm YHWH} is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty {Shaddai}.

7 Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.

8 Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.

9 Behold, the Day of the LORD {Yowm YHWH} is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.

10 For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.

11 I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.

12 I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir (reducing to ashes).

13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of the LORD {YHWH} of Hosts on the day of His burning anger.