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