< Isaiah 13 >

1 The burden of Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.
oracle Babylon which to see Isaiah son: child Amoz
2 Over the foggy mountain lift up a sign! Raise the voice, lift up the hand, and let the rulers enter through the gates!
upon mountain: mount be bare to lift: raise ensign to exalt voice to/for them to wave hand and to come (in): come entrance noble
3 In my wrath, I commanded my sanctified ones, and I called my strong ones, those who exult in my glory.
I to command to/for to consecrate: consecate my also to call: call to mighty man my to/for face: anger my jubilant pride my
4 On the mountains, there is the voice of a multitude, as if of a numerous people, a voice with the sound of kings, of nations gathered together. For the Lord of hosts has given orders to soldiers of war,
voice: sound crowd in/on/with mountain: mount likeness people many voice: sound roar kingdom nation to gather LORD Hosts to reckon: list army battle
5 to those who are arriving from a far off land, from the heights of the heavens. It is the Lord and the instruments of his fury, so that he may bring ruin to all the earth.
to come (in): come from land: country/planet distance from end [the] heaven LORD and article/utensil indignation his to/for to destroy all [the] land: country/planet
6 Wail aloud! For the day of the Lord draws near! It will arrive like a devastation from the Lord.
to wail for near day LORD like/as violence from Almighty to come (in): come
7 Because of it, every hand will fail, and every heart of man will waste away and be crushed.
upon so all hand to slacken and all heart human to melt
8 Writhing and pain will seize them. They will be in pain, like a woman in labor. Each one will appear stupefied to his neighbor. Their countenances will be like faces which have been burned up.
and to dismay pang and pain to grasp [emph?] like/as to beget to twist: writh in pain [emph?] man: anyone to(wards) neighbor his to astounded face flame face their
9 Behold, the day of the Lord approaches: a cruel day, full of indignation and wrath and fury, which will place the earth in solitude and crush the sinners from it.
behold day LORD to come (in): come cruel and fury and burning anger face: anger to/for to set: make [the] land: country/planet to/for horror: destroyed and sinner her to destroy from her
10 For the stars of the heavens, in their splendor, will not display their light. The sun will be obscured at its rising, and the moon will not shine in her brightness.
for star [the] heaven and constellation their not to shine light their to darken [the] sun in/on/with to come out: (sun)rise he and moon not to shine light his
11 And I will act against the evils of the world, and against the impious for their iniquity. And I will cause the pride of the unfaithful to cease, and I will bring down the arrogance of the strong.
and to reckon: punish upon world distress: evil and upon wicked iniquity: crime their and to cease pride arrogant and pride ruthless to abase
12 A man will be more precious than gold, and mankind will become like pure refined gold.
be precious human from pure gold and man from gold Ophir
13 For this purpose, I will stir up heaven, and the earth will be moved from its place, because of the indignation of the Lord of hosts, because of the day of his furious wrath.
upon so heaven to tremble and to shake [the] land: country/planet from place her in/on/with fury LORD Hosts and in/on/with day burning anger face: anger his
14 And they will be like a doe fleeing away, or like sheep; and there will be no one who may gather them together. Each one will turn to his own people, and every one will flee to his own land.
and to be like/as gazelle to banish and like/as flock and nothing to gather man: anyone to(wards) people his to turn and man: anyone to(wards) land: country/planet his to flee
15 All who are found will be killed, and all who are caught unaware will fall by the sword.
all [the] to find to pierce and all [the] to snatch to fall: kill in/on/with sword
16 Their infants will be thrown down violently before their eyes. Their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be violated.
and infant their to dash in pieces to/for eye their to plunder house: home their and woman: wife their (to lie down: have sex *Q(K)*)
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them. They will not seek silver, nor desire gold.
look! I to rouse upon them [obj] Mede which silver: money not to devise: count and gold not to delight in in/on/with him
18 Instead, with their arrows, they will put the little children to death, and they will take no pity on breastfeeding women, and their eye will not spare their children.
and bow youth to dash in pieces and fruit belly: womb not to have compassion upon son: child not to pity eye their
19 And then Babylon, the glorious one among kingdoms, that famous pride of the Chaldeans, will be destroyed, even as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
and to be Babylon beauty kingdom beauty pride Chaldea like/as overthrow God [obj] Sodom and [obj] Gomorrah
20 It will not be inhabited, even unto the end, and it will not be reestablished, even from generation to generation. The Arab will not pitch his tents there, nor will the shepherds take rest there.
not to dwell to/for perpetuity and not to dwell till generation and generation and not to pitch there Arab and to pasture not to stretch there
21 Instead, the wild beasts will rest there, and their houses will be filled with serpents, and ostriches will live there, and the hairy ones will leap about there.
and to stretch there wild beast and to fill house: home their howling animal and to dwell there daughter ostrich and satyr to skip about there
22 And the tawny owls will answer one another there, in its buildings, and the Sirens in its shrines of pleasure.
and to dwell wild beast in/on/with widow his and jackal in/on/with temple: palace delight and near to/for to come (in): come time her and day her not to draw

< Isaiah 13 >