Isaiah 13 ~ 16

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13:1The burden concerning Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw: Compare
13:2Upon a bare mountain raise up a standard; / Lift up your voice to them. / Wave your hand that they may enter / The gates of the nobles. Compare
13:3I Myself have commanded My sanctified ones; / I have also called My mighty ones to My wrath, / Those who exult in My majesty. Compare
13:4The sound of a tumult in the mountains, / Like that of many peoples! / The sound of an uproar of the kingdoms, / Of nations gathered together! / Jehovah of hosts is mustering / An army for battle. Compare
13:5They are coming from a distant land, / From the ends of heaven - / Jehovah and the instruments of His indignation - / To ruin all the land. Compare
13:6Howl, for the day of Jehovah has drawn near! / As destruction from the Almighty, it will come. Compare
13:7Because of this all the hands will drop, / And every human heart will melt; Compare
13:8And people will be dismayed. / Pangs and anguish will seize them; / Like a woman giving birth, they will writhe. / Each man will look toward his neighbor dumbfounded; / Their faces are inflamed. Compare
13:9Now the day of Jehovah is coming - / Cruel and with overflowing wrath and burning anger - / To make the land a desolation; / And He will destroy its sinners off of it. Compare
13:10For the stars of heaven and their constellations / Will not shine forth their light; / The sun will be dark at its rising, / And the moon will not let its light shine. Compare
13:11And I will punish the world for its evil, / And the wicked for their iniquity; / I will stop the arrogance of the proud, / And the haughtiness of the terrible I will abase. Compare
13:12I will make mortal man rarer than pure gold, / And mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir. Compare
13:13Hence, I will make the heavens shake, / And the earth will quake out of its place, / At the overflowing wrath of Jehovah of hosts, / In the day of His burning anger. Compare
13:14And like the hunted gazelle / And sheep without someone to gather them, / Each man will turn to his own people, / And each will flee to his own land. Compare
13:15Everyone found will be pierced through, / And everyone caught will fall by the sword. Compare
13:16And their little ones will be dashed to pieces / Before their eyes; / Their houses will be plundered, / And their wives will be attacked. Compare
13:17Now I rouse up the Medes against them, / Who will not esteem silver highly, / Nor take delight in gold. Compare
13:18Their bows will shatter the young men; / And they will not have compassion on the fruit of the womb: / Their eyes will have no pity on children. Compare
13:19And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, / The glory of the Chaldeans' majesty, / Will be as when God overthrew / Sodom and Gomorrah: Compare
13:20It will not be inhabited forever; / It will not be dwelt in from generation to generation. / And the Arab will not set up his tent there, / Nor will the shepherds make their flocks lie down there. Compare
13:21But desert animals will lie down there, / And their houses will be full of wild dogs; / There ostriches will dwell, / And wild goats will prance there; Compare
13:22Hyenas will respond in their citadels, / And jackals in their exquisite palaces. / Her time is about to come, / And her days will not be prolonged. Compare
14:1When Jehovah has compassion on Jacob and again chooses Israel and settles them in their land, the sojourners will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob. Compare
14:2And nations will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will take possession of them in the land of Jehovah as male and female servants; and they will lead captive those who were their captors and rule over those who oppressed them. Compare
14:3In the day when Jehovah gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and from the hard service that was done by you as slaves, Compare
14:4You will lift up this discourse concerning the king of Babylon and you will say: How the oppressor has ceased! / How the raging has ceased! Compare
14:5Jehovah has broken the staff of the wicked, / The rod of rulers; Compare
14:6That struck the peoples in wrath, / With strikes that would not stop; / That ruled the nations in anger, / With pursuit that would not let up. Compare
14:7All the earth rests and is undisturbed; / They break forth with a ringing shout. Compare
14:8Even the cypress trees rejoice over you, / And the cedars of Lebanon: / Since you are brought down, no tree cutter / Will come up against us. Compare
14:9Sheol beneath is excited because of you, / That it will meet you when you come. / It rouses the dead because of you, / All the great ones of the earth. / It makes all the kings of the nations / Rise from their thrones. Compare
14:10All of them will respond / And say to you, / Even you have been weakened, just as we have; / You have become like us. Compare
14:11Your majesty has been brought down to Sheol, / Even the sound of your harps. / Beneath you maggots are spread; / Worms are your covering. Compare
14:12How you have fallen from heaven, / O Daystar, son of the dawn! / How you have been hewn down to earth, / You who made nations fall prostrate! Compare
14:13But you, you said in your heart: / I will ascend to heaven; / Above the stars of God / I will exalt my throne. / And I will sit upon the mount of assembly / In the uttermost parts of the north. Compare
14:14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; / I will make myself like the Most High. Compare
14:15But you will be brought down to Sheol, / To the uttermost parts of the pit. Compare
14:16Those who see you will gaze at you; / They will ponder concerning you, asking, / Is this the man who made the earth tremble, / The one who shook kingdoms; Compare
14:17Who made the world like a wilderness / And tore down its cities; / Who did not release his captives to their homes? Compare
14:18All the kings of the nations, / All of them, lie in glory, / Each in his own house. Compare
14:19But you have been thrown out away from your tomb, / Like some shoot that is viewed with disgust; / Or like the garments of the slain, of those pierced with the sword, / Who go down to the stones of the pit; / Like a corpse that has been trampled under. Compare
14:20You shall not be united with them in burial, / For you have destroyed your land, / You have slain your people; / The seed of evildoers / Will never be renowned. Compare
14:21Prepare a slaughterhouse for his children / Because of the iniquity of their fathers, / So that they do not rise up and possess the land, / And fill the surface of the world with cities. Compare
14:22And I will rise up against them, / Declares Jehovah of hosts. / And I will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, / And posterity and progeny, declares Jehovah. Compare
14:23And I will make it a possession for porcupines / And muddied pools of water, / And I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, / Declares Jehovah of hosts. Compare
14:24Jehovah of hosts has sworn, saying, / Surely just as I conceived it, so has it happened; / And just as I have purposed it, so shall this stand, Compare
14:25That I will break Assyria in My land, / And upon My mountains I will trample him. / Then his yoke will be taken off of them, / And his burden will be removed from off their shoulders. Compare
14:26This is the purpose that I have purposed over all the earth, / And this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. Compare
14:27For Jehovah of hosts has purposed it, and who will frustrate it? / And thus His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back? Compare
14:28In the year that King Ahaz died this burden came: Compare
14:29Do not rejoice, all of you, Philistia, / That the rod that strikes you is broken, / For from the serpent's root a viper will come forth, / And his fruit will be a flying fiery serpent. Compare
14:30And the poorest of the poor will feed, / And the needy will lie down securely. / And I will kill your root by famine, / And he will slay your remnant. Compare
14:31Howl, O gate! Cry out, O city! / The whole of you, Philistia, is melted away. / For from the north smoke has come, / And there are no stragglers in his ranks. Compare
14:32And what shall one answer this nation's messengers? / That Jehovah has founded Zion, / And in her the poor of His people take refuge. Compare
15:1The burden concerning Moab: Indeed in a night it is devastated - / Ar of Moab is cut off. / Indeed in a night it is devastated - / Kir of Moab is cut off. Compare
15:2They have gone up to their temple and to Dibon, / That is, to their high places, to weep. / Over Nebo and over Medeba / Moab howls; / Upon all their heads is baldness; / Every beard is shaved off. Compare
15:3In their streets they have girded themselves with sackcloth; / On their roofs / And in their open squares everyone will howl, / Melting in tears. Compare
15:4And Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; / Their voice is heard as far as Jahaz. / Because of this the armed men of Moab raise a cry; / Their soul quivers within them. Compare
15:5My heart cries out for Moab; / Its fugitives reach as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah: / By the ascent of Luhith / With weeping they will go up; / On the way that leads to Horonaim / They will raise up a cry of destruction; Compare
15:6The waters of Nimrim / Will be a devastation; / The foliage will be dried up, the grass wasted away; / There will be nothing green. Compare
15:7As a result, the abundance they have produced / And placed in reserve / Will be carried off / To the poplar brook. Compare
15:8For the cry has gone about / The border of Moab; / Their howling goes as far as Eglaim, / Even to Beer-elim their howling reaches. Compare
15:9For the waters of Dimon are full of blood, / For I will bring upon Dimon additional things: / Lions upon those in Moab who escape / And upon the remnant of the land. Compare
16:1Send a lamb of tribute / To the ruler of the land, / From Sela across the wilderness / To the mountain of the daughter of Zion. Compare
16:2Like wandering birds, / Like a scattered nest, / Will the daughters of Moab be / At the fords of the Arnon. Compare
16:3Give us counsel, / Make a judgment concerning us. / Make your shadow at high noon / Like night to us. / Hide the outcasts; / Do not expose him who wanders. Compare
16:4Let the outcasts of Moab / Dwell with you; / Be a hiding place to them / From the destroyer. / When the extortioner finishes / And destruction ends, / When the oppressor is completely gone from the land, Compare
16:5Then will a throne be established in lovingkindness, / And upon it One will sit in truth / In the tent of David, / Judging and pursuing justice / And hastening righteousness. Compare
16:6We have heard of the pride of Moab - / He is extremely proud - / Of his haughtiness and pride and insolence; / His boastings are all untrue. Compare
16:7Therefore Moab will howl for Moab; / They all will howl. / For the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth / You will mourn, utterly stricken. Compare
16:8Because the fields of Heshbon have withered, / And the vine of Sibmah, too. / The lords of the nations / Have trampled under its choicest vines, / Which reached as far as Jazer, / Which meandered into the desert. / Its shoots spread abroad; / They crossed over to the sea. Compare
16:9Therefore I will weep bitterly for Jazer, / For the vine of Sibmah; / I will soak you with my tears, / Heshbon and Elealeh. / For the harvest shout is hushed / Over your summer fruit and over your reapings. Compare
16:10Rejoicing is taken away, and exultation from the fruited field; / In the vineyards there will be no singing for joy; no shouts will be uttered. / The treader will not tread out wine in the presses - / I have made the harvest shout stop. Compare
16:11Therefore for Moab my bowels will moan like a lyre, / And my inward parts for Kir-haresh. Compare
16:12And when Moab appears, / When they weary themselves at their high place, / And come to their sanctuary to pray, / It will not avail. Compare
16:13This is the word which Jehovah spoke concerning Moab long ago. Compare
16:14And now Jehovah has spoken, saying, Within three years, like the years of a hired man, the glory of Moab will be disgraced, with all its great multitude, and its remnant will be small-a mere trifle, nothing great. Compare

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