Isaiah 13 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Prophecies about Babylon

13 The (A)pronouncement concerning (B)Babylon which (C)Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:

2 (D)Lift up a flag on the [a](E)bare hill,
Raise your voice to them,
(F)Wave the hand that they may (G)enter the doors of the nobles.
3 I have commanded My consecrated ones,
I have also called for My (H)warriors
Who boast in My eminence,
To execute My anger.
4 A (I)sound of a roar on the mountains,
Like that of many people!
A sound of an uproar of kingdoms,
Of nations gathered together!
The Lord of armies is mustering the army for battle.
5 They are coming from a distant country,
From the [b](J)farthest horizons,
The Lord and the weapons of His (K)indignation,
To (L)destroy the whole land.

Judgment on the Day of the Lord

6 Wail, for the (M)day of the Lord is near!
It will come as (N)destruction from [c]the Almighty.
7 Therefore (O)all hands will fall limp,
And every human (P)heart will melt.
8 They will be (Q)terrified,
Pains and anguish will take hold of them;
They will (R)writhe like a woman in labor,
They will look at one another in astonishment,
Their faces aflame.
9 Behold, (S)the day of the Lord is coming,
Cruel, with fury and burning anger,
To make the land a desolation;
And He will exterminate its sinners from it.
10 For the (T)stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not flash their light;
The (U)sun will be dark when it rises
And the moon will not shed its light.
11 So I will (V)punish the world for its evil
And the (W)wicked for their wrongdoing;
I will also put an end to the (X)audacity of the proud
And humiliate the (Y)arrogance of the [d](Z)tyrants.
12 I will make mortal man (AA)scarcer than pure gold
And mankind than the (AB)gold of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will make the (AC)heavens tremble,
And (AD)the earth will be shaken from its place
At the fury of the Lord of armies
In (AE)the day of His burning anger.
14 And it will be that, like a hunted gazelle,
Or like (AF)sheep with no one to gather them,
Each of them will turn to his own people,
And each of them will flee to his own land.
15 Anyone who is found will be (AG)thrust through,
And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
16 Their (AH)little ones also will be dashed to pieces
Before their eyes;
Their houses will be plundered
And their wives raped.

Babylon Will Fall to the Medes

17 Behold, I am going to (AI)stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not value silver or (AJ)take pleasure in gold.
18 And their bows will [e]mow down the (AK)young men,
They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb,
Nor will their (AL)eye pity [f]children.
19 And (AM)Babylon, the (AN)beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans’ pride,
Will be as when God (AO)overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It will (AP)never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation;
Nor will the (AQ)Arab pitch his tent there,
Nor will shepherds allow their flocks to lie down there.
21 But (AR)desert creatures will lie down there,
And their houses will be full of [g]owls;
Ostriches also will live there, and [h]shaggy goats will frolic there.
22 [i]Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers
And jackals in their luxurious (AS)palaces.
Her fateful time also [j]will soon come,
And her days will not be prolonged.

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 13:2 Or wind-swept mountain
  2. Isaiah 13:5 Lit end of heaven
  3. Isaiah 13:6 Heb Shaddai
  4. Isaiah 13:11 Or violent
  5. Isaiah 13:18 Lit dash in pieces
  6. Isaiah 13:18 Lit sons
  7. Isaiah 13:21 Or howling creatures
  8. Isaiah 13:21 Or goat demons
  9. Isaiah 13:22 Or howling creatures
  10. Isaiah 13:22 Lit is near to come

Cross references

  1. Isaiah 13:1 : Is 14:28; 15:1
  2. Isaiah 13:1 : Is 13:19; 14:4; 47:1-15; Jer 24:1; 50:1-51:64; Matt 1:11; Rev 14:8
  3. Isaiah 13:1 : Is 1:1
  4. Isaiah 13:2 : Is 5:26; Jer 50:2
  5. Isaiah 13:2 : Jer 51:25
  6. Isaiah 13:2 : Is 10:32; 19:16
  7. Isaiah 13:2 : Is 45:1-3; Jer 51:58
  8. Isaiah 13:3 : Joel 3:11
  9. Isaiah 13:4 : Is 5:30; 17:12; Joel 3:14
  10. Isaiah 13:5 : Is 5:26; 7:18
  11. Isaiah 13:5 : Is 10:5
  12. Isaiah 13:5 : Is 24:1
  13. Isaiah 13:6 : Is 2:12; 10:3; 13:9; 34:2, 8; 61:2; Ezek 30:3; Amos 5:18; Zeph 1:7
  14. Isaiah 13:6 : Is 10:25; 14:23; Joel 1:15
  15. Isaiah 13:7 : Ezek 7:17
  16. Isaiah 13:7 : Is 19:1; Ezek 21:7; Nah 2:10
  17. Isaiah 13:8 : 2 Kin 19:26; Is 21:3; Jer 46:5
  18. Isaiah 13:8 : Is 26:17; Jer 4:31; John 16:21
  19. Isaiah 13:9 : Is 13:6
  20. Isaiah 13:10 : Is 5:30; Ezek 32:7; Joel 2:10; Matt 24:29; Mark 13:24; Luke 21:25; Rev 6:13; 8:12
  21. Isaiah 13:10 : Is 24:23; 50:3; Ezek 32:7; Acts 2:20; Rev 6:12
  22. Isaiah 13:11 : Is 26:21
  23. Isaiah 13:11 : Is 3:11; 11:4; 14:5
  24. Isaiah 13:11 : Is 2:11; 23:9; Dan 5:22, 23
  25. Isaiah 13:11 : Jer 48:29
  26. Isaiah 13:11 : Is 25:3; 29:5, 20
  27. Isaiah 13:12 : Is 4:1; 6:11, 12
  28. Isaiah 13:12 : 1 Kin 9:28; Job 28:16; Ps 45:9
  29. Isaiah 13:13 : Is 34:4; 51:6
  30. Isaiah 13:13 : Ps 18:7; Is 2:19; 24:1, 19, 20; Hag 2:6
  31. Isaiah 13:13 : Lam 1:12
  32. Isaiah 13:14 : 1 Kin 22:17; Matt 9:36; Mark 6:34; 1 Pet 2:25
  33. Isaiah 13:15 : Is 14:19; Jer 50:25; 51:3, 4
  34. Isaiah 13:16 : Ps 137:8, 9; Is 13:18; 14:21; Hos 10:14; Nah 3:10
  35. Isaiah 13:17 : Jer 51:11; Dan 5:28
  36. Isaiah 13:17 : Prov 6:34, 35
  37. Isaiah 13:18 : 2 Kin 8:12; 2 Chr 36:17
  38. Isaiah 13:18 : Ezek 9:5, 10
  39. Isaiah 13:19 : Is 21:9; 48:14
  40. Isaiah 13:19 : Dan 4:30; Rev 18:11-16, 19, 21
  41. Isaiah 13:19 : Gen 19:24; Deut 29:23; Jer 49:18; Amos 4:11
  42. Isaiah 13:20 : Is 14:23; 34:10-15; Jer 51:37-43
  43. Isaiah 13:20 : 2 Chr 17:11
  44. Isaiah 13:21 : Is 34:11-15; Zeph 2:14; Rev 18:2
  45. Isaiah 13:22 : Is 25:2; 32:14; 34:13

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