< Isaiah 13 >
1 oracle Babylon which to see Isaiah son: child Amoz
The oracle on Babylon, —of which Isaiah, son of Amoz had vision: —
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 a bare mountain, lift ye up a standard, Raise high the voice to them, Wave the hand, That they may enter the doors of nobles.
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 myself, have given charge to my hallowed ones, —Yea I have called My heroes in showing mine anger, My proudly exulting ones.
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 in the mountains, A resemblance of many people, —The noise of a tumult of kingdoms Nations gathered together, Yahweh of hosts, mustering a host 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 are coming in From a land far away. From the utmost bound of the heavens, —Yahweh—with his weapons of indignation, To destroy the land.
6 to wail for near day LORD like/as violence from Almighty to come (in): come
Howl ye! for at hand is the day of Yahweh, —As a veritable destruction from the Almighty, shall it come.
7 upon so all hand to slacken and all heart human to melt
For this cause—All hands, shall hang down, —and Every mortal heart, 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
And they shall be in distress—Writhings and pains, shall lay hold, As a woman in childbirth, shall they be in pangs, —Everyone, at his neighbour, shall look in amazement, Faces of flames, their faces!
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
Lo! the day of Yahweh, coming in, Fierce and overflowing, and burning with anger, —To devote the earth to desolation, And her sinners, will he destroy 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 the heavens and their constellations, shall not flash forth their light, —Obscured shall be the sun in his going forth, And the moon, shall not shed 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
And I will visit, upon the inhabited earth, calamity!, And upon the lawless, their punishment, And will quiet the arrogance of the proud, And the loftiness of tyrants, will I lay low.
12 be precious human from pure gold and man from gold Ophir
I will cause, a man, to be more precious than fine gold, —Even a son of earth than, the finest 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
For this cause, the heavens, will I disturb, And, the earth, shall tremble out of her place, —In the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, And in the day of the glow of his anger.
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
And it shall be—Like a gazelle that is chased, And like a sheep with none to lift it up, —Each, to his own people, will they turn, And, each, to his own land, will they flee:
15 all [the] to find to pierce and all [the] to snatch to fall: kill in/on/with sword
Every one found, shall be thrust through, —And, every one taken, 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)*)
And, their infants, shall be dashed to the ground, before their eyes, —Plundered shall be, their houses, 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 me! stirring up against them the Medes, —Who of silver, shall take no account, And as for gold, they shall not delight in 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
And, bows, shall dash the young to pieces, —And on the fruit of the womb, will they have no pity, Over children, will their eye throw no shield.
19 and to be Babylon beauty kingdom beauty pride Chaldea like/as overthrow God [obj] Sodom and [obj] Gomorrah
Thus shall Babylon—The most lovely of kingdoms, The majestic beauty of the Chaldees—Become as in the divine overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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 not be dwelt in for ever, Neither shall it be inhabited from generation to generation, —Neither shall encamp there, an Arab, Nor, shepherds, fold their flocks 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
Then shall lie down there, wild beasts, And filled shall be their houses with owls, —Then shall inhabit there, the ostrich, And shaggy creatures, 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
And jackals shall answer, in their citadels, And wild dogs, in their voluptuous palaces, —And near to come is her time, And, her days, shall not be delayed.