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Isaiah 13
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| 13:1
The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. |
BOM: 2 Nephi 23:1-22
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| 13:2
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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| 13:3
I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for
mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness. |
(13:3-5) "I have commanded my sanctified ones ... to destroy the whole land."
God has his holy ones do his dirty work for him.
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| 13:4
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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| 13:5
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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| 13:6
Howl ye; for the day of
the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
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(13:6-9) "The day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger."
On God's day he will kill sinners with great
anger, wrath, and cruelty. Those who die will have their faces consumed by flames.
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| 13:7
Therefore shall all
hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
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| 13:8
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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| 13:9
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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| 13:10
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. |
According to the Bible, the moon produces
its own light and the earth does not move.
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| 13:11
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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| 13:12
I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden
wedge of Ophir. |
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| 13:13
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. |
"I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place."
When God gets really angry, he causes earthquakes.
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| 13:14
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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| 13:15
Every one that is
found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them
shall fall by the sword. |
(13:15-18)
If God can find you, he will "thrust
you through," smash your children "to pieces" before your eyes,
and rape your wife.
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| 13:16
Their children also
shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be
spoiled, and their wives ravished.
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| 13:17
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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| 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. |
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| 13:19
And Babylon, the
glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when
God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. |
(13:19-20)
These verses falsely predict that Babylon
will never again be inhabited.
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| 13:20
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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| 13:21
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. |
(13:21-22)
Dragons will live in Babylonian palaces
and satyrs will dance there.
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| 13:22
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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