[1] The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
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[2] Lift you up a banner on the high mountain, exalt the voice to them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
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[3] I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
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[4] The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts musters the host of the battle.
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[5] They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land. ¶
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[6] Howl you; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
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[7] Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
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[8] And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travails: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
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[9] Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
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[10] For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
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[11] And I will punish the world for their 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.
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[12] I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
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[13] Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
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[14] And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man takes up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
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[15] Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined to them shall fall by the sword.
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[16] Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
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[17] Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
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[18] Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children. ¶
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[19] And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
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[20] It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelled in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
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[21] But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
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[22] And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
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