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\c 13
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\v 1 A declaration about Babylon, that Isaiah son of Amoz received:
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\q1
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\v 2 On the bare mountain set up a signal flag, cry aloud to them,
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\q1 wave your hand for them to go into the gates of
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the nobles.
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\q1
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\v 3 I have commanded my holy ones,
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\q1 yes, I have called my mighty men to execute my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
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\v 4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of many people!
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\q1 The noise of a tumult of the kingdoms like many nations gathered together!
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\q1 Yahweh of hosts is mustering the army for the battle.
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\q1
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\v 5 They come from a far country, from way over the horizon.
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\q1 It is Yahweh with his instruments of judgment, to
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destroy the whole land.
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\v 6 Howl, for the day of Yahweh is near; it comes with destruction from the Almighty.
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\v 7 Therefore all hands hang limp, and every heart melts.
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\v 8 They will be terrified; pangs and sorrows will seize
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them, like a woman in labor.
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\q1 They will look in astonishment at one another; their faces will be aflame.
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\v 9 See, the day of Yahweh comes with cruel wrath and overflowing anger,
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\q1 to make the land a desolation and to destroy the
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sinners from it.
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\v 10 The stars of heaven and the constellations will not give their light.
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\q1 The sun will be darkened even from dawn, and the moon will not shine.
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\v 11 I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity.
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\q1 I will put an end to the arrogance
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of the proud and will bring down the arrogance of the ruthless.
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\v 12 I will make men more rare than fine gold and mankind harder to find than the pure gold of Ophir.
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\v 13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place,
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\q1 by the fury of Yahweh of hosts, and on the day of his fierce anger.
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\v 14 Like a hunted gazelle or like a sheep with no shepherd,
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\q1 every man will turn toward his own people and will flee to his own land.
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\v 15 Every one who is found will be killed, and every one who is captured will die by the sword.
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\v 16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes.
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\q1 Their houses will be plundered and their wives seized and slept with.
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\v 17 Look, I am about to stir up the Medes to attack them,
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\q1 who will not be concerned about silver, nor do they delight in gold.
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\v 18 Their arrows will pierce the young men.
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\q1 They will have no pity on babies and will not spare children.
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\v 19 And Babylon, the most admired of kingdoms, the splendor of Chaldean pride,
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\q1 will be overthrown by God like Sodom and
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Gomorrah.
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\v 20 It will not be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation.
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\q1 The Arab will not pitch his
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tent there, nor will shepherds have their flocks rest there.
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\v 21 But wild animals of the desert will lie there. Their houses will be full of owls;
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\q1 and ostriches and wild goats will skip about there.
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\v 22 Hyenas will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the beautiful palaces. Her time is near, and her days will not be delayed.
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