Yeshayah 13

¹The massa (burden) of Bavel (Babylon) , which Yeshayah Ben Amotz did see.

²Lift ye up a nes upon the high mountain,

exalt the voice unto them,

shake the yad,

that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

³I have commanded My Mekuddash,

I have also summoned My Gibbor for Mine anger,

even them that rejoice in My highness.

⁴The noise of a hamon (multitude) in the harim (mountains) ,

like as of an Am Rav;

a tumultuous noise of the mamlechot (kingdoms) of Goyim gathered together;

Hashem Tzva'os mustereth the Tzava (army) of the milchamah (battle, war) .

⁵They come from an eretz merchak (a far country) ,

from the end of Shomayim,

Hashem , and the weapons of His indignation,

to destroy Kol HaAretz.

⁶Wail ye; for the Yom Hashem is karov (near) ;

it shall come like shod (sudden destruction) from Shaddai.

⁷Therefore shall kol yadayim (all hands) fall weak,

and kol levav enosh shall melt;

⁸And they shall be afraid;

pangs and chavalim (pains) shall take hold of them;

they shall be in pain like a woman that travaileth in childbirth;

one shall be aghast at his re'a;

their faces shall be like flaming visages.

⁹Hinei, the Yom Hashem cometh,

cruel both with wrath and charon af (fierce anger) ,

to lay the land desolate;

and He shall destroy the chatta'im (sinners) thereof out of it.

¹⁰For the kokhavim of Shomayim and the constellations thereof

shall not give their ohr (light) ;

the shemesh shall be darkened in its rising

and the yarei'ach shall not cause its ohr to shine.

¹¹And I will punish the tevel (world) for ra'ah,

and the resha'im for their avon (iniquity) ;

and I will cause the ga'on (arrogance) of the proud to cease,

and will lay low the ga'avah (pride) of the tyrant.

¹²I will make enosh more rare than rare gold;

even adam than the gold of Ophir.

¹³Therefore I will shake Shomayim,

and Ha'Aretz (the Earth) shall move out of her makom (place) ,

in the evrat Hashem Tzva'os,

and in His Yom Charon Af.

¹⁴And it shall be like deer chased,

and like tzon not gathered;

each ish turning to his people,

and each fleeing to his own land.

¹⁵Every one that is found

yidaker (shall be pierced through, see Zech 12:10 for this same word and Moshiach) ;

and every one that is caught

shall fall by the cherev.

¹⁶Their olelim (infants) also shall be dashed to pieces

before their eyes;

their batim (houses) shall be looted,

and their nashim ravished.

¹⁷Hineni, I will stir up the Medes against them,

which shall not regard kesef;

and as for zahav, they shall not delight in it.

¹⁸Their keshatot (bows) also shall tear ne'arim (young men) to pieces;

and they shall have no rachamim on the pri beten (fruit of the womb) ;

their eyes shall not pity banim.

¹⁹And Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms,

the tiferet ga'on Kasdim,

shall be as when Elohim overthrew

S'dom and Amora (Gomorrah) .

²⁰Lo lanetzach (not ever) shall it be inhabited,

neither shall it be dwelt in ad dor vador;

neither shall the Arab pitch ohel there;

neither shall the ro'im rest their flock there.

²¹But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there;

and their batim (houses) shall be full of owls;

and ostriches shall dwell there,

and demons shall dance there.

²²And the wild beasts shall howl in their strongholds,

and jackals in their heichalot (palaces) of oneg (delight) ;

and her (Babylonʼs) time is karov (near, at hand) to come,

and her days shall not be prolonged.