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Isaiah 13
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Chapter 13
Against Babylon
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Oracle on Babylon, seen by Isaiah son of Amoz.
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On a bare hill hoist a signal, sound the war cry. Beckon them to come to the Nobles’ Gate.
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I, for my part, issue orders to my sacred warriors, I summon my knights to serve my anger, my proud champions.
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Listen! A rumbling in the mountains like a great crowd. Listen! The din of kingdoms of nations mustering. It is Yahweh Sabaoth marshalling the troops for battle.
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They come from a distant country, from the far horizons, Yahweh and the instruments of his fury to lay the whole earth waste.
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Howl! For the day of Yahweh is near, bringing devastation from Shaddai.
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At this, every arm falls limp…The heart of each man fails him,
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they are terrified, pangs and pains seize them, they writhe like a woman in labour. They look at one another with feverish faces.
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The day of Yahweh is coming, merciless, with wrath and fierce anger, to reduce the earth to desert and root out the sinners from it.
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For the stars of the sky and Orion shall not let their light shine; the sun shall be dark when it rises, and the moon not shed her light.
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I will punish the world for its evil-doing, and the wicked for their crimes, to put an end to the pride of arrogant men and humble the pride of despots.
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I will make men scarcer than pure gold, human life scarcer than the gold of Ophir.
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This is why I am going to shake the heavens – and make the earth reel from its place, before the wrath of Yahweh Sabaoth, the day when his anger flares.
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Then like a startled gazelle, like sheep that no one shepherds, each man will return to his people, each take flight to his native land.
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All those caught are slaughtered, all those captured fall by the sword,
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their babies are dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses plundered, their wives raped.
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See now, I stir up against them the Medes, who think nothing of silver, who take no pleasure in gold.
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The baby boys all cut to pieces, the baby girls all crushed. They have no mercy on the fruit of the womb, no pity in their eyes for children.
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Babylon, that pearl of kingdoms, the jewel and boast of Chaldaeans, like Sodom and Gomorrah shall be overthrown by God.
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Never more will anyone live there or be born there from generation to generation. No Arab will pitch his tent there, nor shepherds feed their flocks.
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But beasts of the desert will lie there, and owls fill its houses. Ostriches will make their home there and satyrs have their dances there.
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Hyenas will call to each other in its keeps, jackals in the luxury of its palaces…Its time is almost up, its days will not last long.
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