Isaiah 13:7-22 ▼

7 Therefore, all hands fail, || And every heart of man melts.

8 And they have been troubled, || Pains and pangs take them, || They are pained as a travailing woman, || A man marvels at his friend, || The appearance of flames—their faces!

9 Behold, the Day of YHWH comes, || Fierce, with wrath, and heat of anger, || To make the land become a desolation, || Indeed, He destroys its sinning ones from it.

10 For the stars of the heavens, and their constellations, || Do not cause their light to shine, || The sun has been darkened in its going out, || And the moon does not cause its light to come forth.

11 “And I have appointed evil on the world, || And on the wicked their iniquity, || And have caused the excellence of the proud to cease, || And I make the excellence of the terrible low.

12 I make man more rare than fine gold, || And a common man than pure gold of Ophir.

13 Therefore I cause the heavens to tremble, || And the earth shakes from its place, || In the wrath of YHWH of Hosts, || And in a day of the heat of His anger.

14 And it has been, as a roe driven away, || And as a flock that has no gatherer, || Each to his people—they turn, || And each to his land—they flee.

15 Everyone who is found is thrust through, || And everyone who is added falls by sword.

16 And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, || Their houses are spoiled, and their wives lain with.

17 Behold, I am stirring up the Medes against them, || Who do not esteem silver, || And gold—they do not delight in it.

18 And bows dash young men to pieces, || And they do not pity the fruit of the womb, || Their eye has no pity on sons.

19 And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, || The glory, the excellence of the Chaldeans, || Has been as overthrown by God, || With Sodom and with Gomorrah.

20 She does not sit forever, || Nor continue to many generations, || Nor does Arab pitch tent there, || And shepherds do not lie down there.

21 And desert-dwellers have lain down there, || And their houses have been full of howlers, || And daughters of an ostrich have dwelt there, || And goats skip there.

22 And howlers—he has responded in his forsaken habitations, || And dragons in palaces of delight, || And her time [is] near to come, || And her days are not drawn out!”