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[1] The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
[2] Lift up a standard upon the high mountain: lift up the voice unto them: wag the hand that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
[3] I have commanded them, that I have sanctified: and I have called the mighty to my wrath, and them that rejoice in my glory.
[4] The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, like a great people: a tumultuous voice of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts numbereth the host of the battle.
[5] They come from a far country, from the end of the heaven: even the Lord with the weapons of his wrath to destroy the whole land.
[6] Howl you, for the day of the Lord is at hand: it shall come as a destroyer from the Almighty.
[7] Therefore shall all hands be weakened, and all men's hearts shall melt,
[8] And they shall be afraid: anguish and sorrow shall take them, and they shall have pain, as a woman that travaileth: every one shall be amazed at his neighbor, and their faces shall be like flames of fire.
[9] Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger to lay the land waste: and he shall destroy the sinners out of it.
[10] For the stars of heaven and the planets 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.
[11] And I will visit the wickedness upon the world, and their iniquity upon the wicked, and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will cast down the pride of tyrants.
[12] I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even a man above the wedge of gold of Ophir.
[13] Therefore I will shake the heaven, 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.
[14] And it shall be as a chased doe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up. Every man shall turn to his own people, and flee each one to his own land.
[15] Everyone that is found, shall be stricken through: and whosoever joineth himself, shall fall by the sword.
[16] Their children also shall be broken in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
[17] Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver, nor be desirous of gold.
[18] With bows also shall they destroy the children, and shall have no compassion upon the fruit of the womb, and their eyes shall not spare the children.
[19] And Babylon the glory of kingdoms, the beauty and pride of the Chaldeans, shall be as the destruction of God in Sodom and Gomorrah.
[20] It shall not be inhabited forever; neither shall it be dwelled in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch his tents there, neither shall the shepherds make their folds there.
[21] But Zijm shall lodge there, and their houses shall be full of Ohim: Ostriches shall dwell there, and the satyrs shall dance there.
[22] And Iim shall cry in their palaces, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and the time thereof is ready to come, and the days thereof shall not be prolonged.
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