Isaiah 13
1 oracle Babylon which to see Isaiah son: child Amoz
This is the message Isaiah, son of Amoz, received about Babylon.
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
Set up a banner on a bare hilltop; shout out to them; wave your hand to encourage them to enter the palaces of princes.
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 ordered the ones I have chosen to attack; I have called my warriors to execute my furious judgment and to celebrate my triumph.
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
A noise comes from the mountains, sounding like that of a huge crowd! It's the roaring sound from the kingdoms, from nations gathering together! The Lord Almighty is calling up an army for war.
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 from distant lands, from beyond the far horizons—the Lord and the weapons of his fury—coming to destroy the whole country.
6 to wail for near day LORD like/as violence from Almighty to come (in): come
Howl in fear, for the day of the Lord is approaching—the time when the Almighty destroys.
7 upon so all hand to slacken and all heart human to melt
Everyone's hands will fall limp, and everyone will lose their minds in panic.
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 will be terrified; pain and anguish will seize them; they will suffer like a woman giving birth. They will look in shock at each other, their faces burning in fear.
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
Look! The day of the Lord is coming—cruel, with fury and fierce anger—to devastate the land and to wipe out its sinners.
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
The stars in the constellations of heaven above will not shine. When the sun rises it will stay dark. The moon will give no 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
I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their sin, says the Lord. I will put an end to the conceit of the arrogant, and I will humiliate tyrants and their pride.
12 be precious human from pure gold and man from gold Ophir
I will make people scarcer than pure gold, rarer 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
So I will shake the heavens and make the earth jump out of its place because of the fury of the Lord Almighty, at the time when his anger burns.
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
Like a gazelle being hunted, or like sheep without a shepherd, the Babylonians will return to their own people, they will run away to their own land.
15 all [the] to find to pierce and all [the] to snatch to fall: kill in/on/with sword
Anyone who is captured will be stabbed to death; anyone who is caught will be killed 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 *QK)
Their little children will be dashed to pieces as they watch, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be raped.
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
I'm going to get the Medes to attack them, people who don't care about silver or gold.
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 will slaughter their young men; they will show no mercy to babies; they will have no pity on children.
19 and to be Babylon beauty kingdom beauty pride Chaldea like/as overthrow God [obj] Sodom and [obj] Gomorrah
Babylon, the most marvelous city of any kingdom, the greatest pride of the Babylonian people, will be demolished by God like 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
No one will ever live in Babylon again. It will be deserted—no desert nomad will set up a tent there, no shepherd will bring a flock to rest 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
Only desert animals will make their homes there, and the ruined houses will be inhabited by wild dogs. Owls will live there, and wild goats will leap around.
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
Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her lavish palaces. Babylon's time is coming soon—they will not last much longer.
