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The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amos. |
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Lift up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice; waving your hand to them, that they may go into the gates of the nobles. |
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I have commanded my sanctified and called for [commission] my anger, my strengths, rejoice in my highness. |
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The noise on the mountains, as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth army. |
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They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, the Lord and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
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Wail, for the day of the Lord is near, come as a destruction from the Almighty. |
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Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall melt. |
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They are afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; tormented, like a woman in travail, in amazement looking at each other, their faces are inflamed. |
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Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, 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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Stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon will not shed its light. |
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I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked - for their iniquity, and I will cause the arrogance of the proud, and low the haughtiness of the terrible |
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I do something that people will be more expensive than pure gold, and men - more expensive than the gold of Ophir. |
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For this reason I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place from the wrath of the LORD of hosts, in the day of his fierce anger. |
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It shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that will appeal to his people, and each run in their own land. |
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But who shall be thrust through, and anyone caught shall fall by the sword. |
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And their infants shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. |
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Here, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver and do not delight in gold. |
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Their bows will not spare young men and fruit of the womb; their eye shall not take pity on children.
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And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the Chaldeans' pride, will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, |
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unpopulated ever, from generation to generation is not the inhabitants of it; do not will spread the Arabian tent there, and shepherds with their flocks will not rest there. |
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But will live in the desert animals, and houses full of owl, and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. |
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Jackals will howl in their palaces, and hyenas - in the pleasure houses. |
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