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| Isaiah 13:1 |
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The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son
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| Isaiah 13:2 |
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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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| Isaiah 13:3 |
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I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have
also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness. |
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| Isaiah 13:4 |
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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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| Isaiah 13:5 |
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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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| Isaiah 13:6 |
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Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand;
it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. |
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| Isaiah 13:7 |
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Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every
man's heart shall melt: |
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| Isaiah 13:8 |
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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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| Isaiah 13:9 |
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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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| Isaiah 13:10 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 13:11 |
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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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| Isaiah 13:12 |
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I will make a man more precious than fine gold;
even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. |
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| Isaiah 13:13 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 13:14 |
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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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| Isaiah 13:15 |
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Every one that is found shall be thrust through;
and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword. |
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| Isaiah 13:16 |
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Their children also shall be dashed to pieces
before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. |
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| Isaiah 13:17 |
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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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| Isaiah 13:18 |
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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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| Isaiah 13:19 |
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And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty
of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. |
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| Isaiah 13:20 |
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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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| Isaiah 13:21 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 13:22 |
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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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