Isaiah 13 (NET)

Isaiah 13:1¹This is an oracle about Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 47:1-15Jer 50:1-51:64Isa 1:1Dan 5:28Dan 5:6Rev 17:1-18Isa 13:19Isa 14:28Isa 14:4-23Isa 15:1

Isaiah 13:2²On a bare hill raise a signal flag; shout to them, wave your hand, so they might enter the gates of the princes!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 5:26Jer 51:58Jer 50:2Isa 45:1-3Jer 51:25Isa 10:32Isa 18:3Isa 11:12Isa 11:15Jer 51:27-28

Isaiah 13:3³I have given orders to my chosen soldiers; I have summoned the warriors through whom I will vent my anger — my boasting, arrogant ones.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 3:11Jer 51:20-24Rev 17:12-18Ezra 1:1-11Ezra 6:1-22Ezra 7:12-26Isa 23:11Isa 44:27-28Isa 45:4-5Jer 50:21-46

Isaiah 13:4⁴There is a loud noise on the mountains— it sounds like a large army! There is great commotion among the kingdoms — nations are being assembled! The Lord of Heaven’s Armies is mustering forces for battle.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 3:14Ezek 38:3-23Joel 2:1-11Joel 2:25Rev 19:11-21Isa 10:5-6Isa 22:1-9Isa 45:1-2Jer 50:14-15Jer 50:2-3

Isaiah 13:5⁵They come from a distant land, from the horizon. It is the Lord with his instruments of judgment, coming to destroy the whole earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 50:9Jer 51:20-46Matt 24:31Isa 13:17Isa 24:1Isa 5:26Jer 50:3Jer 51:11

Isaiah 13:6⁶Wail, for the Lord ’s day of judgment is near; it comes with all the destructive power of the Sovereign One.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 1:151 Thess 5:2-3Amos 5:18Ezek 30:2-3Isa 13:9Zeph 1:7Isa 2:12Isa 34:8Jer 51:8Joel 2:11

Isaiah 13:7⁷For this reason all hands hang limp, every human heart loses its courage.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 21:7Ezek 7:17Isa 19:1Nah 1:6Nah 2:10Exod 15:15Isa 10:3-4Isa 37:27Isa 51:20Jer 50:43

Isaiah 13:8⁸They panic— cramps and pain seize hold of them like those of a woman who is straining to give birth. They look at one another in astonishment; their faces are flushed red.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Thess 5:3Isa 26:17Nah 2:10Isa 21:3-4Dan 5:5-6Jer 30:6Jer 4:31Jer 50:43Joel 2:6John 16:21

Isaiah 13:9⁹Look, the Lord ’s day of judgment is coming; it is a day of cruelty and savage, raging anger, destroying the earth and annihilating its sinners.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mal 4:1Nah 1:6Isa 13:15-18Isa 13:6Isa 47:10-15Jer 50:40-42Jer 51:35-58Jer 6:22-23Nah 1:2Ps 104:35

Isaiah 13:10¹⁰Indeed the stars in the sky and their constellations no longer give out their light; the sun is darkened as soon as it rises, and the moon does not shine.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 2:31Matt 24:29Mark 13:24Ezek 32:7-8Isa 24:23Isa 5:30Joel 2:10Joel 3:15Luke 21:25Rev 6:12-14

Isaiah 13:11¹¹I will punish the world for its evil, and wicked people for their sin. I will put an end to the pride of the insolent, I will bring down the arrogance of tyrants.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 2:11Isa 5:15Dan 5:22-23Jer 50:29-32Isa 11:4Isa 14:12-16Isa 14:21Isa 2:17Isa 24:4-6Isa 26:21

Isaiah 13:12¹²I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold, and people more scarce than gold from Ophir.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 4:1Isa 24:6Job 28:16Ps 137:9Isa 13:15-18

Isaiah 13:13¹³So I will shake the heavens, and the earth will shake loose from its foundation, because of the fury of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, in the day he vents his raging anger.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 12:26-27Joel 3:16Matt 24:29Hag 2:6-7Nah 1:4-62 Pet 3:10Hag 2:21-22Isa 34:4Isa 51:6Jer 4:23-24

Isaiah 13:14¹⁴Like a frightened gazelle or a sheep with no shepherd, each will turn toward home, each will run to his homeland.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 22:17Jer 50:161 Kgs 22:36Jer 51:9Isa 17:13Isa 47:15Rev 18:9-10

Isaiah 13:15¹⁵Everyone who is caught will be stabbed; everyone who is seized will die by the sword.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 14:19-22Isa 47:9-14Jer 50:25Jer 50:27Jer 50:35-42Jer 51:3-4

Isaiah 13:16¹⁶Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives raped.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hos 10:14Nah 3:10Isa 13:18Ps 137:8-9Lam 5:11Zech 14:2

Isaiah 13:17¹⁷Look, I am stirring up the Medes to attack them; they are not concerned about silver, nor are they interested in gold.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 5:28-31Jer 51:11Isa 41:25Jer 50:9Jer 51:27-28Isa 13:3-5Isa 21:2Prov 6:34-35

Isaiah 13:18¹⁸Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons; they have no compassion on a person’s offspring; they will not look with pity on children.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 8:122 Chr 36:17Ezek 9:10Ezek 9:5-6Hos 13:16Isa 13:16Nah 2:1Nah 3:10

Isaiah 13:19¹⁹Babylon, the most admired of kingdoms, the Chaldeans’ source of honor and pride, will be destroyed by God just as Sodom and Gomorrah were.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 4:30Amos 4:11Deut 29:23Gen 19:24Jer 49:18Jer 50:40Jer 51:41Zeph 2:9Dan 2:37-38Isa 14:12-15

Isaiah 13:20²⁰No one will live there again; no one will ever reside there again. No bedouin will camp there, no shepherds will rest their flocks there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 14:23Jer 51:432 Chr 17:11Isa 34:10-15Jer 50:13Jer 50:21Jer 50:3Jer 50:39Jer 50:45Jer 51:25

Isaiah 13:21²¹Wild animals will rest there, the ruined houses will be full of hyenas. Ostriches will live there, wild goats will skip among the ruins.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 18:2Isa 34:11-15

Isaiah 13:22²²Wild dogs will yip in her ruined fortresses, jackals will yelp in the once-splendid palaces. Her time is almost up, her days will not be prolonged.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 25:2Isa 35:7Jer 51:332 Pet 2:32 Pet 3:9-10Deut 32:35Ezek 7:7-10Hab 2:3Isa 34:13