Isaiah 13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Isaiah 13Proclamation against Babylon

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7 Ezek 7.17; 21.7 Therefore all hands will be feeble,

and every human heart will melt,

8 Isa 21.3; 26.17 and they will be terrified.

Pangs and agony will seize them;

they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.

They will look aghast at one another;

their faces will be aflame.

9 Isa 66.15, 16 See, the day of the Lord is coming,

cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,

to make the earth a desolation

and to destroy its sinners from it.

10 Isa 5.30; Joel 2.10; Mt 24.29; Mk 13.24; Lk 21.25 For the stars of the heavens and their constellations

will not give their light;

the sun will be dark at its rising,

and the moon will not shed its light.

11 Isa 2.11; 11.4; 26.21; Jer 48.29 I will punish the world for its evil

and the wicked for their iniquity;

I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant

and lay low the insolence of tyrants.

12I will make mortals more rare than fine gold

and humans than the gold of Ophir.

13 Isa 34.4; 51.6; Jer 10.10; Am 8.8; Hag 2.6 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,

and the earth will be shaken out of its place

at the wrath of the Lord of hosts

in the day of his fierce anger.

14 1 Kings 22.17; Jer 50.16; 51.9 Like a gazelle on the run

or like sheep with no one to gather them,

all will turn back to their own people,

and all will flee to their own lands.

15Whoever is found will be thrust through,

and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.

16 Ps 137.9; Nah 3.10; Zech 14.2 Their infants will be dashed to pieces

before their eyes;

their houses will be plundered

and their wives raped.

17 Isa 21.2; Jer 51.11; Dan 5.28 See, I am stirring up the Medes against them,

who have no regard for silver

and do not delight in gold.

18 2 Kings 8.12; Ezek 9.5, 10 Their bows will slaughter the young men;

they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;

their eyes will not pity children.

19 Gen 19.24; Deut 29.23; Isa 21.9; Jer 49.18; Dan 4.30 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,

the splendor and pride of the Chaldeans,

will be like Sodom and Gomorrah

when God overthrew them.

20 Jer 51.37–43 It will never be inhabited

or lived in for all generations;

Arabs will not pitch their tents there;

shepherds will not make their flocks lie down there.

21 Isa 34.11–15 But wild animals will lie down there,

and its houses will be full of howling creatures;

there ostriches will live,

and there goat-demons will dance.

22 Jer 51.33 Hyenas will cry in its towers

and jackals in the pleasant palaces;

its time is close at hand;

and its days will not be prolonged.