Isaiah 13:1-13 ▼

1 The burden of Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz has seen.

2 Upon the bare mountain lift up a banner! Raise high your voice to them. Wave a hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

3 I have commanded My holy ones; also, I have called My mighty ones for My nose—those jubilant ones of My pride.

4 The voice of a crowd on the mountains, like that of many people—the voice of a roar of the kingdoms of nations gathered together! YHWH of Hosts is mustering a host for battle!

5 They are coming from a land far off, from the end of the heavens—YHWH and the instruments of His indignation—to destroy all the land.

6 Wail, for the day of YHWH is near; it will come as destruction from Shaddai.

7 At this all hands will go limp, and every heart of man will melt;

8 and they will be afraid; pains and pangs will seize them; like a woman in labor they will writhe. Each man to his neighbor will look with astonishment, with faces aflame—their faces.

9 Behold, the day of YHWH is coming, cruel with wrath and heat of anger, to set the land unto desolation, and He will destroy its sinful ones from it.

10 For the stars of the heavens and their constellations their light will not shine forth; the sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause to shine its light.

11 And I will visit punishment upon the world for evil, and upon the wicked for their iniquity, and I will make cease the arrogance of the proud ones, and the haughtiness of the ruthless ones I will lay low.

12 I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir.

13 Upon thus I will make the heavens tremble and the earth will be shaken from her place, by the fury of YHWH of Hosts, and in the day of the heat of his nose.