Isaiah 13:6–16 · BSB
13:6
Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; it will come as destruction from the Almighty.
13:7
Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.
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13:8
Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.
13:9
Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming—cruel, with fury and burning anger—to make the earth a desolation and to destroy the sinners within it.
13:10
For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.
13:11
I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
13:12
I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
13:13
Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken from its place at the wrath of the LORD of Hosts on the day of His burning anger.
13:14
Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.
13:15
Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.
13:16
Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.
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