1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
2Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain,
3I have commanded my sanctified ones,
4The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people;
5They come from a far country, from the end of the heaven,
6Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand;
7Therefore shall all hands be faint,
8And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them;
9Behold, the day of the Lord cometh,
10For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light:
11And I will punish the world for their evil,
12I will make a man more precious than fine gold;
13Therefore I will shake the heavens,
14And it shall be as the chased roe,
15Every one that is found shall be thrust through;
16Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,
18Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces;
19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,
20It shall never be inhabited,
21But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there;
22And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses,