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Babylon Will Be Punished

13 This is the divine revelation which Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw about Babylon.

Raise a banner on the bare mountaintop.
    Call loudly to them.
        Signal them with your hand to enter the nobles’ gates.
I’ve commanded my holy ones.
    I’ve called my mighty men to carry out my anger.
    They find joy in my triumphs.
Listen to the noise on the mountains.
    It is like the sound of a large army.
    It is the sound of kingdoms and nations gathering together.
    Yahweh Tsebaoth is assembling his army for battle.
His army is coming from a distant land,
    from the ends of heaven.
    Yahweh is coming with the weapons of his fury
    to destroy the whole world.

Cry loudly, for the day of Yahweh is near.
    It will come like destruction from Shadday.
That is why every hand will hang limp,
    and everyone’s courage will fail.
        They’ll be terrified.
            Pain and anguish will seize them.
        They’ll writhe like a woman giving birth to a child.
        They’ll look at one another in astonishment.
            Their faces will be burning red.

The day of Yahweh is going to come.
    It will be a cruel day with fury and fierce anger.
        He will make the earth desolate.
            He will destroy its sinners.
10 The stars in the sky and their constellations
    won’t show their light anymore.
    The sun will be dark when it rises.
    The moon won’t shine.

11 I will punish the world for its evil
    and the wicked for their wrongdoing.
    I will put an end to arrogant people
    and humble the pride of tyrants.
12 I will make people harder to find than pure gold
    and human beings more rare than gold from Ophir.
13 I will make heaven tremble,
    and the earth will be shaken from its place
        when Yahweh Tsebaoth is angry.
            At that time he will be very angry.

14 They’ll be like hunted gazelle
    and like sheep with no one to gather them.
    Everyone will return to his own people
    and flee to his own land.
15 Whoever is found will be stabbed to death.
    Whoever is captured will be executed.
16 Their little children will be smashed to death right before their eyes.
    Their houses will be looted and their wives raped.

17 I’m going to stir up the Medes against them.
    They don’t care for silver and aren’t happy with gold.
18 But their bows will smash the youth.
    They’ll have no compassion for babies,
        nor will they look with pity on children.

19 Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms,
    the proud beauty of the Chaldeans,
        will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when Elohim destroyed them.
20 It will never be inhabited again,
    and no one will live in it for generations.
        Arabs won’t pitch their tents there.
        Shepherds won’t let their flocks rest there.
21 Desert animals will lie down there.
    Their homes will be full of owls.
        Ostriches will live there,
            and wild goats will skip about.
22 Hyenas will howl in Babylon’s strongholds,
    and jackals will howl in its luxurious palaces.

Its time has almost come.
    Its days will not be extended.

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