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1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
2 Lift you up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice to them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, [even] them that rejoice in my highness.
4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts musters the host of the battle.
5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, [even] the LORD [Yahweh], and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6 Howl you; for the day of the LORD [Yahweh] [is] at hand; it will come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore will all hands be faint, and every man's heart will melt:
8 And they will be afraid: pangs and sorrows will take hold of them; they will be in pain as a woman that travails: they will be amazed one at another; their faces [will be as] flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD [Yahweh] comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he will destroy the sinners of it out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations of it will not give their light: the sun will be darkened in his going forth, and the moon will not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth will remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And it will be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man takes up: they will every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
15 Every one that is found will be thrust through; and every one that is joined [to them] will fall by the sword.
16 Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which will not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they will not delight in it.
18 [Their] bows also will dash the young men to pieces; and they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye will not spare children.
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It will never be inhabited, neither will it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither will the Arabian pitch tent there; neither will the shepherds make their fold there.
21 But wild beasts of the desert will lie there; and their houses will be full of doleful creatures; and owls will dwell there, and satyrs will dance there.
22 And the wild beasts of the islands will cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in [their] pleasant palaces: and her time [is] near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.