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1 | The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. |
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2 | Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice
unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of
the nobles. |
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3 | I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my
mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my
highness. |
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4 | The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great
people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered
together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. |
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5 | They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the
LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole
land. |
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6 | Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as
a destruction from the Almighty. |
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7 | Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart
shall melt: |
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8 | And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of
them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they
shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as
flames. |
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9 | 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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10 | For the stars of heaven and the constellations 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. |
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11 | And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for
their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to
cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. |
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12 | I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man
than the golden wedge of Ophir. |
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13 | Therefore I will shake the heavens, 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. |
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14 | And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man
taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and
flee every one into his own land. |
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15 | Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one
that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword. |
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16 | Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their
eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. |
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17 | Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not
regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it. |
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18 | Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they
shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall
not spare children. |
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19 | And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the
Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and
Gomorrah. |
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20 | It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from
generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent
there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. |
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21 | But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their
houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall
dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. |
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22 | And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate
houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is
near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged. |
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