# Isaiah 13 đź“–
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## đź“ś Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
### The Lord Will Judge Babylon
[[#Verse 01.]] This is an oracle about Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:
[[#Verse 02.]]Â On a bare hill raise a signal flag;
shout to them,
wave your hand,
so they might enter the gates of the princes!
[[#Verse 03.]]Â I have given orders to my chosen soldiers;
I have summoned the warriors through whom I will vent my anger—
my boasting, arrogant ones.
[[#Verse 04.]] There is a loud noise on the mountains—
it sounds like a large army!
There is great commotion among the kingdoms—
nations are being assembled!
The Lord of Heaven’s Armies is mustering
forces for battle.
[[#Verse 05.]]Â They come from a distant land,
from the horizon.
It is the Lord with his instruments of judgment,
coming to destroy the whole earth.
[[#Verse 06.]] Wail, for the Lord’s day of judgment is near;
it comes with all the destructive power of the Sovereign One.
[[#Verse 07.]]Â For this reason all hands hang limp,
every human heart loses its courage.
[[#Verse 08.]] They panic—
cramps and pain seize hold of them
like those of a woman who is straining to give birth.
They look at one another in astonishment;
their faces are flushed red.
[[#Verse 09.]] Look, the Lord’s day of judgment is coming;
it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger,
destroying the earth
and annihilating its sinners.
[[#Verse 10.]]Â Indeed the stars in the sky and their constellations
no longer give out their light;
the sun is darkened as soon as it rises,
and the moon does not shine.
[[#Verse 11.]]Â I will punish the world for its evil,
and wicked people for their sin.
I will put an end to the pride of the insolent,
I will bring down the arrogance of tyrants.
[[#Verse 12.]]Â I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold,
and people more scarce than gold from Ophir.
[[#Verse 13.]]Â So I will shake the heavens,
and the earth will shake loose from its foundation,
because of the fury of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies,
in the day he vents his raging anger.
[[#Verse 14.]]Â Like a frightened gazelle
or a sheep with no shepherd,
each will turn toward home,
each will run to his homeland.
[[#Verse 15.]]Â Everyone who is caught will be stabbed;
everyone who is seized will die by the sword.
[[#Verse 16.]]Â Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes;
their houses will be looted
and their wives raped.
[[#Verse 17.]]Â Look, I am stirring up the Medes to attack them;
they are not concerned about silver,
nor are they interested in gold.
[[#Verse 18.]]Â Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons;
they have no compassion on a person’s offspring;
they will not look with pity on children.
[[#Verse 19.]] Babylon, the most admired of kingdoms,
the Chaldeans’ source of honor and pride,
will be destroyed by God
just as Sodom and Gomorrah were.
[[#Verse 20.]]Â No one will live there again;
no one will ever reside there again.
No bedouin will camp there,
no shepherds will rest their flocks there.
[[#Verse 21.]]Â Wild animals will rest there,
the ruined houses will be full of hyenas.
Ostriches will live there,
wild goats will skip among the ruins.
[[#Verse 22.]]Â Wild dogs will yip in her ruined fortresses,
jackals will yelp in the once-splendid palaces.
Her time is almost up,
her days will not be prolonged.
## ==đź“– Verse-by-Verse Commentary==
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- "Trust God's timing in an uncertain situation."
- "Speak truth even when it’s unpopular."
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- Romans 5 and Genesis 3
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