Isaiah Chapter 13

God’s muster of his armies


13:1 The burden of Babylon (Iraq), which Isaiah /aɪˈzeɪ.ə/; Hebrew: יְשַׁעְיָהוּ‎, Yəšaʿyāhū, “Yahweh is Salvation”), also known as Isaias or Esaias, the son of Amoz (meaning strong) did see.
13:2 Y’all Lift up a banner on the high mountain, exalt the voice to them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
13:3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
13:4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, likeness of a great people; a turbulent noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here of hosts musters the army of the battle.
13:5 They come from a far country, from the end of the heavensהַשָּׁמַיִם‎
Pronunciation: hah’-shaw-mah’-yim Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute – the visible heavens, the abode of the stars like the visible universe, the sky, the atmosphere For more info click here, even YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

A threat to destroy Babylon


13:6 Y’all Howl; because the day of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from Shaddaiשַׁדַּי
romanized: Šaddāy; or Shaddai is one of the names of the God of Israel. El Shaddai is conventionally translated into English as God Almighty (Deus Omnipotens in Latin, Arabic: الله عزوجل, romanized: ʾAllāh ʿazzawajal), but its original meaning is unclear. One of God’s names Shaddai = Exhaustless Bounty click here.
13:7 So shall all hands be faint (or fall down), and every man’s heart shall melt:
13:8 And they shall be afraid: distress and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain like a woman that gives birth: they shall be dumbfounded at one another; their faces shall be like flames.
13:9 See, the day of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners out of it.
13:10 Because the stars of the heavensהַשָּׁמַיִם‎
Pronunciation: hah’-shaw-mah’-yim Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute – the visible heavens, the abode of the stars like the visible universe, the sky, the atmosphere For more info click here and the constellations of it shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going out, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
13:11 And I will punish the world (that is the Babylonia empire) for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the pride of the arrogant to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
13:12 I will make a man more precious than pure gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13:13 So I will shake the heavensהַשָּׁמַיִם‎
Pronunciation: hah’-shaw-mah’-yim Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute – the visible heavens, the abode of the stars like the visible universe, the sky, the atmosphere For more info click here, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
13:14 And it shall be like the pursued roe (or gazelle), and like a flock of sheep that no man gathers up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and escape everyone into his own land.
13:15 Everyone that is found shall be thrust through; and everyone that is swept away to them shall fall by the sword.
13:16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished.
13:17 See, I will stir up the Medes (or Media or Madai) against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
13:18 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.

Babylon’s desolation


13:19 And Babylon (Iraq), the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be like when Elohimאֱלֹהִים
romanized: ʾĔlōhīm: [(ʔ)eloˈ(h)im]), the plural of אֱלוֹהַּ‎ (ʾĔlōah), is a Hebrew word meaning “gods”. Although the word is plural, in the Hebrew Bible it most often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement and refers to a single deity particularly the God of Israel In other verses it refers to the singular gods of other nations or to deities in the plural A name for GOD — God The Creator. For more info click here overthrew Sodom (meaning burning) and Gomorrah.
13:20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation: or shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
13:21 But wild animals of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of hyenas; and owls shall live there, and goats shall dance there.
13:22 And the howling animals of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and venomous snakes in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

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