The Burden Of The Cup Of Cursing To Give To Babylon To Drink, Which Isaiah The Son Of Amoz Did Prophesy.

Against the fortified city that dwells securely lift up the ensign, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

I have commanded those that are prepared by me, I have also called together my mighty ones, that they may avenge my wrath upon them, my strength, and my praise.

There is a voice of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people: the voice of the tumultuous assembly of kings, of nations being assembled, the Lord of hosts is mustering the armies for battle.

They are coming from a far country, from the ends of the earth: the Lord and the vessels of the cup of cursing before Him, to destroy all the wicked of the earth.

Howl ye, for nigh is the day, ready to come from before the Lord; like spoil from before the Almighty it shall come.

Therefore shall all hands be slackened, and every man's heart shall melt.

They shall be struck with consternation; distress and pangs shall take hold of them; they shall tremble as with the trembling of a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their countenances shall be like flames of fire.

Behold, the day from before the presence of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and He shall destroy the sinners out of it.

For the stars of heaven and their constellations shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth; and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

And I will visit the inhabitants of the world with the punishment for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will put an end to the greatness of the wicked, and the strength of the mighty I will humble.

And I will love them that fear me more than gold, in which the sons of men glory; and those that keep the law more than the fine gold of Ophir.

Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, from before the presence of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of the fierceness of His anger.

And he shall be as a roe chased, and as sheep when there is none to gather them together: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.

Every one that shall be found in her shall be slain, and every one that shall enter into the fortified cities shall be slain by the sword.

And their children shall be dashed before their eyes; their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished.

Behold, I am bringing upon them the Medes, who are not impelled by silver; and as for gold, they delight not in it.

And their bows shall strike through the young men; and they shall not compassionate the child of the womb; their eye shall not spare the children.

And Babylon shall become, she that was aforetimes the joy of kings, the beauty of the Chaldeens' excellency, as the overthrow wherewith the Lord overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

It shall not be inhabited for ever; nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch his tent there, neither shall the shepherds dwell there.

But the martens shall lodge there; and their houses shall be filled with owls; and there shall the ostriches dwell; and devils shall delight themselves there.

The wild cats shall shriek in their palaces; and dragons in the place of the abodes of their luxuries. And nigh to come is the time of the destruction of Babylon, and her days shall not be prolonged.