Isaiah 13:3
Good News Translation
The LORD has called out his proud and confident soldiers to fight a holy war and punish those he is angry with.

New Revised Standard Version
I myself have commanded my consecrated ones, have summoned my warriors, my proudly exulting ones, to execute my anger.

Contemporary English Version
The LORD has commanded his very best warriors and his proud heroes to show how angry he is.

New American Bible
I have commanded my consecrated ones, I have summoned my warriors, eager and bold to carry out my anger.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have commanded my sanctified ones, and have called my strong ones in my wrath, them that rejoice in my glory.

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I have commanded my sanctified ones, and have called my strong ones in my wrath, them that rejoice in my glory.

commanded

Isaiah 23:11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he troubled kingdoms: the Lord hath given a charge against Chanaan, to destroy the strong ones thereof.

Isaiah 44:27,28 Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up thy rivers. . . .

Isaiah 45:4,5 For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have made a likeness of thee, and thou hast not known me. . . .

Jeremiah 50:21 Go up against the land of the rulers, and punish the inhabitants thereof, waste, and destroy all behind them, saith the Lord: and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

mighty ones

Jeremiah 51:20-24 Thou dashest together for me the weapons of war, and with thee I will dash nations together, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms: . . .

Joel 3:11 Break forth, and come, all ye nations from round about, and gather yourselves together: there will the Lord cause all thy strong ones to fall down.

Revelation 17:12-18 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, who have not yet received a kingdom: but shall receive power as kings, one hour after the beast. . . .

them that

Ezra 1:1 In the first year of Cyrus king of the Persians, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremias might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of the Persians: and he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and in writing also, saying:

Ezra 6:1 Then king Darius gave orders, and they searched in the library of the books that were laid up in Babylon,

Ezra 7:12-26 Artaxerxes king of kings to Esdras the priest, the most learned scribe of the law of the God of heaven, greeting. . . .

Psalm 149:2,5-9 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: and let the children of Sion be joyful in their king. . . .

Revelation 18:4-8,20-24 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from her, my people; that you be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not of her plagues. . . .

Revelation 19:1-7 After these things, I heard as it were the voice of much people in heaven, saying: Alleluia. Salvation and glory and power is to our God. . . .

Context
An Oracle Concerning Babylon
2Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a banner, exalt the voice, lift up the hand, and let the rulers go into the gates. 3I have commanded my sanctified ones, and have called my strong ones in my wrath, them that rejoice in my glory.4The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as it were of many people, the noise of the sound of kings, of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts hath given charge to the troops of war.…
Cross References
Isaiah 5:26
And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come with speed swiftly.

Jeremiah 25:9
Behold I will send, and take all the kindreds of the north, saith the Lord, and Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon my servant: and I will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all the nations that are round about it: and I will destroy them, and make them an astonishment and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Jeremiah 51:46
And lest your hearts faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land: and a rumour shall come in one year, and after this year another rumour: and iniquity in the land, and ruler upon ruler.

Jeremiah 51:53
If Babylon should mount up to heaven, and establish her strength on high: from me there should come spoilers upon her, saith the Lord.

Joel 3:11
Break forth, and come, all ye nations from round about, and gather yourselves together: there will the Lord cause all thy strong ones to fall down.

Zephaniah 1:7
Be silent before the face of the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is near, for the Lord hath prepared a victim, he hath sanctified his guests.

Isaiah 13:2
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