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9 Behold, the day of YHWH is coming, cruel with wrath and heat of anger, to set the land unto desolation, and He will destroy its sinful ones from it. 10 For the stars of the heavens and their constellations their light will not shine forth; the sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause to shine its light. 11 And I will visit punishment upon the world for evil, and upon the wicked for their iniquity, and I will make cease the arrogance of the proud ones, and the haughtiness of the ruthless ones I will lay low. 12 I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir. 13 Upon thus I will make the heavens tremble and the earth will be shaken from her place, by the fury of YHWH of Hosts, and in the day of the heat of his nose. 14 And it has been like the gazelle driven away, or like a sheep without one gathering it, each man to his people will turn, and each man to his land will flee. 15 Everyone who is found will be pierced, and everyone who is captured will fall by the sword; 16 and their children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives will be ravished. 17 Behold, I am stirring up against them the Medes, who regard have no for silver, and gold—they do not delight in it. 18 And the bows will dash to pieces the young men, and on the fruit of the womb they will have no mercy—on sons their eye has no pity. 19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms and the beauty of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be like the overthrowing by God of Sodom and Gomorrah. 20 She wil not be dwelt in to eternity, she wil not be dwelt in for generation and generation, and no Arab or shepherds will pitch a tent; there they will not make flocks rest there. 21 And desert creatures will stretch out there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures, and daughters of the ostrich will dwell there, and wild goats will skip about there, 22 and hyenas will howl in its towers, and jackals in its palaces of delight. And her time is coming near, and her days will not be drawn out. Isaiah 13:9-22, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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