Isaiah 13

1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.Cross-references: Isa 1:1 · Isa 13:19 · Isa 14:4 · Isa 14:28 · Isa 15:1 · Isa 17:1 · +20 more

2Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.Cross-references: Isa 5:26 · Isa 10:32 · Isa 11:12 · Isa 11:15 · Isa 18:3 · Isa 45:1 · +4 more

3I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.Cross-references: Ezra 1:1 · Ezra 6:1 · Ezra 7:12 · Ps 149:2 · Ps 149:5 · Isa 23:11 · +8 more

4The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.Cross-references: Isa 10:5 · Isa 22:1 · Isa 45:1 · Jer 50:2 · Jer 50:14 · Jer 50:21 · +11 more

5They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.Cross-references: Isa 5:26 · Isa 13:17 · Isa 24:1 · Jer 50:3 · Jer 50:9 · Jer 51:11 · +2 more

6Wail, for Yahweh’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.Cross-references: Job 31:23 · Isa 2:12 · Isa 13:9 · Isa 14:31 · Isa 23:1 · Isa 34:8 · +21 more

7Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.Cross-references: Ex 15:15 · Isa 10:3 · Isa 19:1 · Isa 37:27 · Isa 51:20 · Jer 50:43 · +4 more

8They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.Cross-references: Ps 48:5 · Isa 21:3 · Isa 26:17 · Jer 4:31 · Jer 30:6 · Jer 50:43 · +5 more

9Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.Cross-references: Ps 104:35 · Prov 2:22 · Isa 13:6 · Isa 13:15 · Isa 47:10 · Jer 6:22 · +8 more

10For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.Cross-references: Isa 5:30 · Isa 24:21 · Isa 24:23 · Ezek 32:7 · Joel 2:10 · Joel 2:31 · +8 more

11I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.Cross-references: Isa 2:11 · Isa 2:17 · Isa 3:11 · Isa 5:15 · Isa 11:4 · Isa 14:12 · +8 more

12I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.Cross-references: Job 28:16 · Ps 137:9 · Isa 4:1 · Isa 13:15 · Isa 24:6

13Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.Cross-references: Ps 110:5 · Isa 34:4 · Isa 51:6 · Jer 4:23 · Lam 1:12 · Joel 3:16 · +9 more

14It will happen that like a hunted gazelle and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:17 · 1Ki 22:36 · Isa 17:13 · Isa 47:15 · Jer 50:16 · Jer 51:9 · +1 more

15Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.Cross-references: Isa 14:19 · Isa 47:9 · Jer 50:25 · Jer 50:27 · Jer 50:35 · Jer 51:3

16Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.Cross-references: Ps 137:8 · Isa 13:18 · Lam 5:11 · Hos 10:14 · Nah 3:10 · Zech 14:2

17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.Cross-references: Prov 6:34 · Isa 13:3 · Isa 21:2 · Isa 41:25 · Jer 50:9 · Jer 51:11 · +2 more

18Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.Cross-references: 2Ki 8:12 · 2Chr 36:17 · Isa 13:16 · Ezek 9:5 · Ezek 9:10 · Hos 13:16 · +2 more

19Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.Cross-references: Gen 19:24 · Deut 29:23 · Isa 14:4 · Isa 14:12 · Jer 49:18 · Jer 50:40 · +5 more

20It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.Cross-references: 2Chr 17:11 · Isa 14:23 · Isa 34:10 · Jer 50:3 · Jer 50:13 · Jer 50:21 · +8 more

21But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.Cross-references: Isa 34:11 · Rev 18:2

22Hyenas will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.Cross-references: Deut 32:35 · Isa 25:2 · Isa 34:13 · Isa 35:7 · Jer 51:33 · Ezek 7:7 · +3 more