< Isaiah 13 >
1 oracle Babylon which to see Isaiah son: child Amoz
A prophecy concerning Babylon, which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.
2 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
Upon the bare mountain lift up a banner; Cry aloud to them, wave the hand, That they may enter the gates of the tyrants!
3 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
I have given orders to my consecrated ones, Yea, I have called upon my mighty ones to execute mine anger, My proud exulters!
4 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
The noise of a multitude upon the mountains, like that of a great people! The tumultuous noise of kingdoms, of nations gathered together! Jehovah of hosts mustereth his army for battle.
5 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
They come from a distant country, From the end of Heaven, Jehovah and the instruments of his indignation. To lay waste the whole land.
6 to wail for near day LORD like/as violence from Almighty to come (in): come
Howl ye, for the day of Jehovah is at hand! Like a destruction from the Almighty, it cometh;
7 upon so all hand to slacken and all heart human to melt
Therefore shall all hands hang down, And every heart of man shall melt.
8 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
They shall be in consternation; Distress and anguish shall lay hold of them; As a woman in travail shall they writhe; They shall look upon one another with amazement: Their faces shall glow like flames.
9 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
Behold! the day of Jehovah cometh, Terrible, full of wrath and burning indignation, To make the land a waste, And to destroy the sinners out of it.
10 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
For the stars of heaven, and the constellations thereof, Shall not give their light; The sun shall be darkened at his going forth, And the moon shall withhold her light.
11 and to reckon: punish upon world distress: evil and upon wicked iniquity: crime their and to cease pride arrogant and pride ruthless to abase
For I will punish the world for its guilt, And the wicked for their iniquity. I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud, And I will bring down the haughtiness of the tyrants.
12 be precious human from pure gold and man from gold Ophir
I will make men scarcer than gold; Yea, men than the gold of Ophir.
13 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
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, And the earth shall be shaken out of her place, In the anger of Jehovah of hosts, In the day of his burning indignation.
14 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
Then shall they be like a chased doe; Like a flock, which no one gathereth together; Every one shall turn to his own people, And every one flee to his own land.
15 all [the] to find to pierce and all [the] to snatch to fall: kill in/on/with sword
Every one that is overtaken shall be thrust through, And every one that is caught shall fall by the sword.
16 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)*)
Their children shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; Their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished.
17 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
Behold, I stir up against them the Medes, Who make no account of silver, And as to gold, they do not regard it.
18 and bow youth to dash in pieces and fruit belly: womb not to have compassion upon son: child not to pity eye their
Their bows shall strike down the young men, And on the fruit of the womb they shall have no compassion; Their eye shall not pity the children.
19 and to be Babylon beauty kingdom beauty pride Chaldea like/as overthrow God [obj] Sodom and [obj] Gomorrah
So shall Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The proud ornament of the Chaldeans, Be like Sodom and Gomorrah, which God overthrew,
20 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
It shall never more be inhabited; Nor shall it be dwelt in through all generations. Nor shall the Arabian pitch his tent there, Nor shall shepherds make their folds there.
21 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
But there shall the wild beasts of the desert lodge, And owls shall fill their houses; And ostriches shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.
22 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
Wolves shall howl in their palaces, And jackals in their pleasant edifices. Her time is near, And her days shall not be prolonged.