[Isa 13:1 NASB] The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
[Isa 13:2 NASB] Lift up a standard on the bare hill, Raise your voice to them, Wave the hand that they may enter the doors of the nobles.
[Isa 13:3 NASB] I have commanded My consecrated ones, I have even called My mighty warriors, My proudly exulting ones, To execute My anger.
[Isa 13:4 NASB] A sound of tumult on the mountains, Like that of many people! A sound of the uproar of kingdoms, Of nations gathered together! The LORD of hosts is mustering the army for battle.
[Isa 13:5 NASB] They are coming from a far country, From the farthest horizons, The LORD and His instruments of indignation, To destroy the whole land.
[Isa 13:6 NASB] Wail, for the day of the LORD is near! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
[Isa 13:7 NASB] Therefore all hands will fall limp, And every man's heart will melt.
[Isa 13:8 NASB] They will be terrified, Pains and anguish will take hold of them; They will writhe like a woman in labor, They will look at one another in astonishment, Their faces aflame.
[Isa 13:9 NASB] Behold, the day of the LORD is coming, Cruel, with fury and burning anger, To make the land a desolation; And He will exterminate its sinners from it.
[Isa 13:10 NASB] For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not flash forth their light; The sun will be dark when it rises And the moon will not shed its light.
[Isa 13:11 NASB] Thus I will punish the world for its evil And the wicked for their iniquity; I will also put an end to the arrogance of the proud And abase the haughtiness of the ruthless.
[Isa 13:12 NASB] I will make mortal man scarcer than pure gold And mankind than the gold of Ophir.
[Isa 13:13 NASB] Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, And the earth will be shaken from its place At the fury of the LORD of hosts In the day of His burning anger.
[Isa 13:14 NASB] And it will be that like a hunted gazelle, Or like sheep with none to gather them, They will each turn to his own people, And each one flee to his own land.
[Isa 13:15 NASB] Anyone who is found will be thrust through, And anyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
[Isa 13:16 NASB] Their little ones also will be dashed to pieces Before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered And their wives ravished.
[Isa 13:17 NASB] Behold, I am going to stir up the Medes against them, Who will not value silver or take pleasure in gold.
[Isa 13:18 NASB] And their bows will mow down the young men, They will not even have compassion on the fruit of the womb, Nor will their eye pity children.
[Isa 13:19 NASB] And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans' pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
[Isa 13:20 NASB] It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation; Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there, Nor will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
[Isa 13:21 NASB] But desert creatures will lie down there, And their houses will be full of owls; Ostriches also will live there, and shaggy goats will frolic there.
[Isa 13:22 NASB] Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers And jackals in their luxurious palaces. Her fateful time also will soon come And her days will not be prolonged.
[Isa 21:1 NASB] The oracle concerning the wilderness (desert) of the sea. As windstorms in the Negev sweep on, It comes from the wilderness, from a terrifying land.
[Isa 21:2 NASB] A harsh vision has been shown to me; The treacherous one still deals treacherously, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, Elam, lay siege, Media; I have made an end of all the groaning she has caused.
[Isa 21:3 NASB] For this reason my loins are full of anguish; Pains have seized me like the pains of a woman in labor. I am so bewildered I cannot hear, so terrified I cannot see.
[Isa 21:4 NASB] My mind reels, horror overwhelms me; The twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.
[Isa 21:5 NASB] They set the table, they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink; "Rise up, captains, oil the shields,"
[Isa 21:6 NASB] For thus the Lord says to me, "Go, station the lookout, let him report what he sees.
[Isa 21:7 NASB] "When he sees riders, horsemen in pairs, A train of donkeys, a train of camels, Let him pay close attention, very close attention."
[Isa 21:8 NASB] Then the lookout called, "O Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower, And I am stationed every night at my guard post.
[Isa 21:9 NASB] "Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs." And one said, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon; And all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground."
[Isa 21:10 NASB] O my threshed people, and my afflicted of the threshing floor! What I have heard from the LORD of hosts, The God of Israel, I make known to you.
[Isa 21:11 NASB] The oracle concerning Edom. One keeps calling to me from Seir, "Watchman, how far gone is the night? Watchman, how far gone is the night?"
[Isa 21:12 NASB] The watchman says, "Morning comes but also night. If you would inquire, inquire; Come back again."
[Isa 21:13 NASB] The oracle about Arabia. In the thickets of Arabia you must spend the night, O caravans of Dedanites.
[Isa 21:14 NASB] Bring water for the thirsty, O inhabitants of the land of Tema, Meet the fugitive with bread.
[Isa 21:15 NASB] For they have fled from the swords, From the drawn sword, and from the bent bow And from the press of battle.
[Isa 21:16 NASB] For thus the Lord said to me, "In a year, as a hired man would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will terminate;
[Isa 21:17 NASB] and the remainder of the number of bowmen, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD God of Israel has spoken."
[Psa 137:1 NASB] By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down and wept, When we remembered Zion.
[Psa 137:2 NASB] Upon the willows in the midst of it We hung our harps.
[Psa 137:3 NASB] For there our captors demanded of us songs, And our tormentors mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion."
[Psa 137:4 NASB] How can we sing the LORD'S song In a foreign land?
[Psa 137:5 NASB] If I forget you, O Jerusalem, May my right hand forget her skill.
[Psa 137:6 NASB] May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth If I do not remember you, If I do not exalt Jerusalem Above my chief joy.
[Psa 137:7 NASB] Remember, O LORD, against the sons of Edom The day of Jerusalem, Who said, "Raze it, raze it To its very foundation."
[Psa 137:8 NASB] O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, How blessed will be the one who repays you With the recompense with which you have repaid us.
[Psa 137:9 NASB] How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Against the rock.
[Jer 49:7 NASB] Concerning Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Is there no longer any wisdom in Teman? Has good counsel been lost to the prudent? Has their wisdom decayed?
[Jer 49:8 NASB] "Flee away, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan, For I will bring the disaster of Esau upon him At the time I punish him.
[Jer 49:9 NASB] "If grape gatherers came to you, Would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, They would destroy only until they had enough.
[Jer 49:10 NASB] "But I have stripped Esau bare, I have uncovered his hiding places So that he will not be able to conceal himself; His offspring has been destroyed along with his relatives And his neighbors, and he is no more.
[Jer 49:11 NASB] "Leave your orphans behind, I will keep them alive; And let your widows trust in Me."
[Jer 49:12 NASB] For thus says the LORD, "Behold, those who were not sentenced to drink the cup will certainly drink it, and are you the one who will be completely acquitted? You will not be acquitted, but you will certainly drink it.
[Jer 49:13 NASB] "For I have sworn by Myself," declares the LORD, "that Bozrah will become an object of horror, a reproach, a ruin and a curse; and all its cities will become perpetual ruins."
[Jer 49:14 NASB] I have heard a message from the LORD, And an envoy is sent among the nations, saying, "Gather yourselves together and come against her, And rise up for battle!"
[Jer 49:15 NASB] "For behold, I have made you small among the nations, Despised among men.
[Jer 49:16 NASB] "As for the terror of you, The arrogance of your heart has deceived you, O you who live in the clefts of the rock, Who occupy the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as an eagle's, I will bring you down from there," declares the LORD.
[Jer 49:17 NASB] "Edom will become an object of horror; everyone who passes by it will be horrified and will hiss at all its wounds.
[Jer 49:18 NASB] "Like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah with its neighbors," says the LORD, "no one will live there, nor will a son of man reside in it.
[Jer 49:19 NASB] "Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan against a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make him run away from it, and whoever is chosen I shall appoint over it. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd who can stand against Me?"
[Jer 49:20 NASB] Therefore hear the plan of the LORD which He has planned against Edom, and His purposes which He has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: surely they will drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; surely He will make their pasture desolate because of them.
[Jer 49:21 NASB] The earth has quaked at the noise of their downfall. There is an outcry! The noise of it has been heard at the Red Sea.
[Eze 25:12 NASB] 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has incurred grievous guilt, and avenged themselves upon them,"
[Eze 25:13 NASB] therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "I will also stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off man and beast from it. And I will lay it waste; from Teman even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
[Eze 25:14 NASB] "I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel. Therefore, they will act in Edom according to My anger and according to My wrath; thus they will know My vengeance," declares the Lord GOD.
[Isa 34:5 NASB] For My sword is satiated in heaven, Behold it shall descend for judgment upon Edom And upon the people whom I have devoted to destruction.
[Isa 34:6 NASB] The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, It is sated with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
[Isa 34:7 NASB] Wild oxen will also fall with them And young bulls with strong ones; Thus their land will be soaked with blood, And their dust become greasy with fat.
[Isa 34:8 NASB] For the LORD has a day of vengeance, A year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
[Isa 34:9 NASB] Its streams will be turned into pitch (TAR/CRUDE OIL), And its loose earth into brimstone (SULFUR), And its land will become burning pitch (TAR/CRUDE OIL).
[Isa 34:10 NASB] It will not be quenched night or day; Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation it will be desolate; None will pass through it forever and ever.
[Isa 34:11 NASB] But pelican and hedgehog will possess it, And owl and raven will dwell in it; And He will stretch over it the line of desolation And the plumb line of emptiness.
[Isa 34:12 NASB] Its nobles--there is no one there Whom they may proclaim king-- And all its princes will be nothing.
[Isa 34:13 NASB] Thorns will come up in its fortified towers, Nettles and thistles in its fortified cities; It will also be a haunt of jackals And an abode of ostriches.
[Isa 34:14 NASB] The desert creatures will meet with the wolves, The hairy goat also will cry to its kind; Yes, the night monster will settle there And will find herself a resting place.
[Isa 34:15 NASB] The tree snake will make its nest and lay eggs there, And it will hatch and gather them under its protection. Yes, the hawks will be gathered there, Every one with its kind.