1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
2 Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto
3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty
4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great
5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove
14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man
15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one
16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not
18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’
20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from
21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses
22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate