Isaiah 13  Christian Standard Bible

² Lift up a banner on a barren mountain.^(C)
Call out to them.
Signal with your hand, and they will go
through the gates of the nobles.
³ I have commanded my consecrated ones;
yes, I have called my warriors,
who celebrate my triumph,
to execute my wrath.^(D)
4 Listen, a commotion on the mountains,
like that of a mighty people!
Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms,
like nations being gathered together!
The Lord of Armies is mobilizing an army for war.
⁵ They are coming from a distant land,
from the farthest horizon—
the Lord and the weapons of his wrath—
to destroy the whole country.^[a]
6 Wail! For the day of the Lord is near.^(E)
It will come as destruction from the Almighty.^(F)
7 Therefore everyone’s hands will become weak,
and every man will lose heart.
⁸ They will be horrified;
pain and agony will seize them;
they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.^(G)
They will look at each other,
their faces flushed with fear.
⁹ Look, the day^(H) of the Lord is coming—
cruel, with fury and burning anger—
to make the earth a desolation
and to destroy its sinners.^(I)
10 Indeed, the stars of the sky and its constellations^[b]
will not give their light.
The sun will be dark when it rises,
and the moon will not shine.^(J)
11 I will punish the world for its evil,^(K)
and wicked people for their iniquities.
I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant^(L)
and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.
¹² I will make a human more scarce than fine gold,
and mankind more rare than the gold of Ophir.^(M)
13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,
and the earth will shake from its foundations^(N)
at the wrath of the Lord of Armies,
on the day of his burning anger.
¹⁴ Like wandering gazelles
and like sheep without a shepherd,^(O)
each one will turn to his own people,
each one will flee to his own land.
¹⁵ Whoever is found will be stabbed,
and whoever is caught will die by the sword.
¹⁶ Their children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;^(P)
their houses will be looted,
and their wives raped.
¹⁷ Look! I am stirring up the Medes against them,^(Q)
who cannot be bought off with^[c] silver
and who have no desire for gold.
¹⁸ Their bows will cut young men to pieces.
They will have no compassion on offspring;
they will not look with pity on children.