Isaiah 13

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1 The burden of Babylon , which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. 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. 3 I have commanded my sanctified ones , I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness. 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 . 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. 6 ¶ Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. 7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt : 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. 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. 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. 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 . 12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. 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 . 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 . 15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword. 16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled , and their wives ravished. 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. 18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children. 19 ¶ And Babylon , the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 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. 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. 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. 2 Ne. 23:1 (1–22) . “Burden” as used in Isaiah is a message of doom “lifted up” against a people. Isa. 14:28 . The historic destruction of wicked Babylon, prophesied in Isa. 13 and 14 , is made typical of the ultimate destruction of the whole wicked world. D&C 133:14 (5, 7, 14) . OR ensign. TG Ensign . Isa. 2:2 . HEB raise. “Sanctified ones” and “saints” are synonymously translated from either of two Hebrew words in the Old Testament. Joel 3:11 . Zeph. 3:8 . Zech. 12:9 (4, 8–9) . Isa. 14:31 . TG Day of the Lord . Moses 7:66 . TG Pain . Hosea 13:13 . TG Earth, Cleansing of ; World, End of . Ezek. 32:7 (7–8) ; Joel 2:10 ; Matt. 24:29 . TG Punish . TG World . TG Haughtiness . HEB tyrants. Isa. 24:6 . TG Worth of Souls . Job 28:16 . Hag. 2:6 ; 2 Ne. 8:6 ; 3 Ne. 26:3 . Isa. 14:26 (22–26) ; 24:1 ; D&C 88:87 (87–92) . TG Earth, Renewal of . Lam. 1:12 . OR hunted deer. HEB none gathers in. Jer. 50:16 . TG Lands of Inheritance . OR pierced or stabbed. Nahum 3:10 . Zech. 14:2 (1–2) . OR plundered. Dan. 5:30–31 . TG Babylon . HEB vainglorious grandeur of the Babylonians. Isa. 23:13 . Jer. 20:16 ; Amos 4:11 . Gen. 19:24 ; Jer. 50:40 . Jer. 50:3 . Isa. 34:14 (11–15) . HEB he-goats, or demons. HEB palaces. HEB (perhaps) jackals, or wild dogs.