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    Isaiah 13

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    In Babylon’s luxurious palaces, jackals will howl, while ostriches dwell there and wild goats leap about—a remarkably well-appointed ruin.

    The gates are openedvv. 1–5

    Isaiah son of Amoz receives a burden against Babylon, and the summons begins on a barren hilltop: a banner raised, a call sounded, and a hand waved so that the warriors may enter the nobles’ gates. The noise gathers from the mountains and among the kingdoms, until the LORD of Hosts is mobilizing an army and bringing the weapons of His wrath from faraway lands.

    The day of shakingvv. 6–18

    The Day of the LORD arrives with limp hands, melting hearts, terror, pain, and faces flushed with fear. Light itself withdraws: the stars, the sun, and the moon all fail at their business. People flee like hunted animals to their own lands, while those caught face the sword and the ruin of their households. And then come the Medes, a conquering people with a curious indifference to the usual glitter of conquest: silver does not matter, and gold does not tempt them.

    A palace district for jackalsvv. 19–22

    Babylon, called the jewel of the kingdoms and the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, is overthrown like Sodom and Gomorrah. No nomad pitches a tent there and no shepherd rests a flock; instead, desert creatures lie down in the houses. Ostriches and wild goats occupy the scene, while hyenas howl in the fortresses and jackals in the luxurious palaces. Babylon’s days, the passage says, are not to be prolonged.

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    1. Isa 13:1This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:

    2. Isa 13:2Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; call aloud to them. Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

    3. Isa 13:3I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph.

    4. Isa 13:4Listen, a tumult on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations gathered together! The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.

    5. Isa 13:5They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens—the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—to destroy the whole country.

    6. Isa 13:6Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

    7. Isa 13:7Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.

    8. Isa 13:8Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.

    9. Isa 13:9Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.

    10. Isa 13:10For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.

    11. Isa 13:11I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.

    12. Isa 13:12I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.

    13. Isa 13:13Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts on the day of His burning anger.

    14. Isa 13:14Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.

    15. Isa 13:15Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.

    16. Isa 13:16Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

    17. Isa 13:17Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, who have no regard for silver and no desire for gold.

    18. Isa 13:18Their bows will dash young men to pieces; they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb; they will not look with pity on the children.

    19. Isa 13:19And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.

    20. Isa 13:20She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.

    21. Isa 13:21But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.

    22. Isa 13:22Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.

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    • 2Jeremiah 51:58This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
    • 2Isaiah 5:26He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!
    • 10Joel 2:31The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the LORD.
    • 13Hebrews 12:26–27At that time His voice shook the earth, but now He has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth, but heaven as well.”
    • 2Jeremiah 50:2“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’
    • 6Joel 1:15Alas for the day! For the Day of the LORD is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
    • 10Matthew 24:29Immediately after the tribulation of those days: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.’
    • 2Jeremiah 51:25“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.
    • 2Isaiah 45:1–3This is what the LORD says to Cyrus His anointed, whose right hand I have grasped to subdue nations before him, to disarm kings, to open the doors before him, so that the gates will not be shut:
    • 9Nahum 1:6Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
    • 9Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
    • 10Mark 13:24But in those days, after that tribulation: ‘The sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light;
    • 10Ezekiel 32:7–8When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.
    • 11Isaiah 2:11The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
    • 13Joel 3:16The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
    • 17Daniel 5:28–31PERES means that your kingdom has been divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.”

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