Isaiah 13

¹This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:

²Raise a banner on a barren hilltop;

³I have commanded My sanctified ones;

⁴Listen, a tumult on the mountains,

⁵They are coming from faraway lands,

⁶Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near;

⁷Therefore all hands will fall limp,

⁸Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them;

⁹Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—

¹⁰For the stars of heaven and their constellations

¹¹I will punish the world for its evil

¹²I will make man scarcer than pure gold,

¹³Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,

¹⁴Like a hunted gazelle,

¹⁵Whoever is caught will be stabbed,

¹⁶Their infants will be dashed to pieces

¹⁷Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes,

¹⁸Their bows will dash young men to pieces;

¹⁹And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms,

²⁰She will never be inhabited

²¹But desert creatures will lie down there,

²²Hyenas will howl in her fortresses