The Burden against Babylon
This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received: Isa 47:1-15Jer 50:1Isa 1:1Dan 5:28Dan 5:6Rev 17:1-18Isa 13:19Isa 14:28
Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; Isa 5:26Jer 51:58Jer 50:2Isa 45:1-3Jer 51:25Isa 10:32Isa 18:3Isa 11:12
call aloud to them.
Wave your hand,
that they may enter the gates of the nobles.
I have commanded My sanctified ones; Jol 3:11Jer 51:20-24Rev 17:12-18Ezr 1:1-11Ezr 6:1-22Ezr 7:12-26Isa 23:11Isa 44:27-28
I have even summoned My warriors
to execute My wrath
and exult in My triumph.
Listen, a tumult on the mountains, Jol 3:14Ezk 38:3-23Jol 2:1-11Jol 2:25Rev 19:11-21Isa 10:5-6Isa 22:1-9Isa 45:1-2
like that of a great multitude!
Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms,
like nations gathered together!
The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing
an army for war.
They are coming from faraway lands, Jer 50:9Jer 51:20-46Mat 24:31Isa 13:17Isa 24:1Isa 5:26Jer 50:3Jer 51:11
from the ends of the heavens—
the LORD and the weapons of His wrath—
to destroy the whole country.
Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; Jol 1:15Amo 5:181Th 5:2-3Ezk 30:2-3Isa 13:9Zep 1:7Isa 2:12Isa 34:8
it will come as destruction from the Almighty. 1
Therefore all hands will fall limp, Ezk 21:7Ezk 7:17Isa 19:1Nam 1:6Nam 2:10Exo 15:15Isa 10:3-4Isa 37:27
and every man’s heart will melt.
Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; 1Th 5:3Isa 26:17Nam 2:10Isa 21:3-4Dan 5:5-6Jer 30:6Jer 4:31Jer 50:43
they will writhe like a woman in labor.
They will look at one another,
their faces flushed with fear.
Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming— Mal 4:1Nam 1:6Isa 13:15-18Isa 13:6Isa 47:10-15Jer 50:40-42Jer 51:35-58Jer 6:22-23
cruel, with fury and burning anger—
to make the earth a desolation
and to destroy the sinners within it.
For the stars of heaven and their constellations Jol 2:31Mat 24:29Ezk 32:7-8Mrk 13:24Isa 24:23Isa 5:30Jol 2:10Jol 3:15
will not give their light.
The rising sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light.
I will punish the world for its evil Isa 2:11Isa 5:15Dan 5:22-23Jer 50:29-32Isa 11:4Isa 14:12-16Isa 14:21Isa 2:17
and the wicked for their iniquity.
I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant
and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
I will make man scarcer than pure gold, Isa 4:1Isa 24:6Job 28:16Psa 137:9Isa 13:15-18
and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, Heb 12:26-27Jol 3:16Mat 24:29Hag 2:6-7Nam 1:4-62Pe 3:10Hag 2:21-22Isa 34:4
and the earth will be shaken from its place
at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts
on the day of His burning anger.
Like a hunted gazelle, 1Ki 22:17Jer 50:161Ki 22:36Jer 51:9Isa 17:13Isa 47:15Rev 18:9-10
like a sheep without a shepherd,
each will return to his own people,
each will flee to his native land.
Whoever is caught will be stabbed, Isa 14:19-22Isa 47:9-14Jer 50:25Jer 50:27Jer 50:35-42Jer 51:3-4
and whoever is captured will die by the sword.
Their infants will be dashed to pieces Hos 10:14Nam 3:10Isa 13:18Psa 137:8-9Lam 5:11Zec 14:2
before their eyes,
their houses will be looted,
and their wives will be ravished.
Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, Dan 5:28-31Jer 51:11Isa 41:25Jer 50:9Jer 51:27-28Isa 13:3-5Isa 21:2Pro 6:34-35
who have no regard for silver
and no desire for gold.
Their bows will dash young men to pieces; 2Ki 8:122Ch 36:17Ezk 9:10Ezk 9:5-6Hos 13:16Isa 13:16Nam 2:1Nam 3:10
they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;
they will not look with pity on the children.
And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, Dan 4:30Amo 4:11Deu 29:23Gen 19:24Jer 49:18Jer 50:40Jer 51:41Zep 2:9
the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans,
will be overthrown by God
like Sodom and Gomorrah.
She will never be inhabited Isa 14:23Jer 51:432Ch 17:11Isa 34:10-15Jer 50:13Jer 50:21Jer 50:3Jer 50:39
or settled from generation to generation;
no nomad will pitch his tent there,
no shepherd will rest his flock there.
But desert creatures will lie down there, Rev 18:2Isa 34:11-15
and howling creatures will fill her houses.
Ostriches 2will dwell there,
and wild goats will leap about.
Hyenas will howl in her fortresses Isa 25:2Isa 35:7Jer 51:332Pe 2:32Pe 3:9-10Deu 32:35Ezk 7:7-10Hab 2:3
and jackals 3in her luxurious palaces.
Babylon’s time is at hand,
and her days will not be prolonged.