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Isaiah 13 Summary
The Judgment of Babylon
Isaiah beholds the burden of Babylon: the LORD calls His sanctified ones to lift a banner upon the high mountain, declaring the day of the LORD is at hand as a destruction from the Almighty. The armies come from a far country to destroy the whole land, and all shall be afraid with pangs and sorrows. The day of the LORD is cruel, laying the land desolate, darkening the sun and moon; the LORD shall punish the wicked and make man more precious than gold. In His wrath, the heavens shall shake, and He shall stir up the Medes against Babylon; the glory of Babylon shall become as Sodom and Gomorrah, a desolate, uninhabited ruin where wild beasts dwell.
Key themes
Key verses
Isaiah 13:1
“The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.”
Isaiah 13:9
“Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.”
Isaiah 13:13
“Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.”
Isaiah 13:19
“And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.”
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