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13:1  An oracle against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:
13:2  Lift up a banner on a barren mountain. Call out to them. Wave your hand, and they will go through the gates of the nobles.
13:3  I have commanded My chosen ones; I have also called My warriors, who exult in My triumph, to execute My wrath.
13:4  Listen, a tumult on the mountains, like that of a mighty people! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations being gathered together! The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.
13:5  They are coming from a far land, from the distant horizon-- the LORD and the weapons of His wrath-- to destroy the whole country.
13:6  Wail! For the day of the LORD is near. It will come like destruction from the Almighty.
13:7  Therefore everyone's hands will become weak, and every man's heart will melt.
13:8  They will be horrified; pain and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look at each other, their faces flushed with fear.
13:9  Look, the day of the LORD is coming-- cruel, with rage and burning anger-- to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners on it.
13:10  Indeed, the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will not shine.
13:11  I will bring disaster on the world, and their own iniquity, on the wicked. I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.
13:12  I will make man scarcer than gold, and mankind more rare than the gold of Ophir.
13:13  Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will shake from its foundations at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts, on the day of His burning anger.
13:14  Like wandering gazelles and like sheep without a shepherd, each one will turn to his own people, each one will flee to his own land.
13:15  Whoever is found will be stabbed, and whoever is caught will die by the sword.
13:16  Their children will be smashed to death before their eyes; their houses will be looted, and their wives raped.
13:17  Look! I am stirring up the Medes against them, who cannot be bought off with silver and who have no desire for gold.
13:18  Their bows will cut young men to pieces. They will have no compassion on little ones; they will not look with pity on children.
13:19  And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
13:20  It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation; a nomad will not pitch his tent there, and shepherds will not let their flocks rest there.
13:21  But desert creatures will lie down there, and owls will fill the houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
13:22  Hyenas will howl in the fortresses, and jackals, in the luxurious palaces. Babylon's time is almost up; her days are almost over.