Isaiah 13:9-20

New King James Version

⁹Behold, ^(A)the day of the Lord comes,
Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger,
To lay the land desolate;
And He will destroy ^(B)its sinners from it.
¹⁰For the stars of heaven and their constellations
Will not give their light;
The sun will be ^(C)darkened in its going forth,
And the moon will not cause its light to shine.

¹¹“I will ^(D)punish the world for its evil,
And the wicked for their iniquity;
^(E)I will halt the arrogance of the proud,
And will lay low the haughtiness of the ^[a]terrible.
¹²I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold,
A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.
¹³^(F)Therefore I will shake the heavens,
And the earth will move out of her place,
In the wrath of the Lord of hosts
And in ^(G)the day of His fierce anger.
¹⁴It shall be as the hunted gazelle,
And as a sheep that no man ^[b]takes up;
^(H)Every man will turn to his own people,
And everyone will flee to his own land.
¹⁵Everyone who is found will be thrust through,
And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
¹⁶Their children also will be ^(I)dashed to pieces before their eyes;
Their houses will be plundered
And their wives ^(J)ravished.

¹⁷“Behold,^(K) I will stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not ^[c]regard silver;
And as for gold, they will not delight in it.
¹⁸Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces,
And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb;
Their eye will not spare children.
¹⁹^(L)And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,
The beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride,
Will be as when God overthrew ^(M)Sodom and Gomorrah.
²⁰^(N)It will never be inhabited,
Nor will it be settled from generation to generation;
Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there,
Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.