The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
Lift up a banner upon a bare mountain, raise the voice to them, wave the hand that they may enter the gates of the nobles.
I have commanded my separated ones, yea, I have called my mighty ones for mine anger, even those that exult in my majesty.
The noise of a multitude on the mountains, as of a great people! a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations assembled together! Jehovah of hosts mustering the host of the battle!
They come from a far country, from the end of the heavens—Jehovah and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth.
Howl ye; for the day of Jehovah [is] at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt,
and they shall be dismayed: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall writhe as a woman in travail; they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be] faces of flames.
Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun is darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.
And I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
I will make weak man more rare than fine gold, a man than the pure gold of Ophir.
Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of her place, at the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his hot anger.
And it shall come to pass, that as a chased roe, and as sheep that no one gathereth, they shall turn every one to his own people, and shall flee every one to his own land.
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall fall by the sword.
Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their women ravished.
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not regard silver, and [as for] gold, they will not delight in it.
And [their] bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldean’s pride, shall be as God’s overthrowing Sodom and Gomorrha.
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in to generation and generation; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, nor shall shepherds make [their flocks] to lie down there.
But beasts of the desert there shall lie down; and their houses shall be full of owls; and ostriches shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
And wolves shall cry in their palaces, and jackals in the pleasant castles. And her time [is] near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.