Parallel Verses
- Christian Standard Bible - Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who pays you back what you have done to us.
- 新标点和合本 - 将要被灭的巴比伦城啊（城：原文是女子）， 报复你像你待我们的，那人便为有福！
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 将要被灭的巴比伦 哪， 用你待我们的恶行报复你的，那人有福了。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 将要被灭的巴比伦 哪， 用你待我们的恶行报复你的，那人有福了。
- 当代译本 - 巴比伦城啊， 你快要灭亡了， 那向你以牙还牙为我们复仇的人有福了！
- 圣经新译本 - 将要被毁灭的（“将要被毁灭的”有古译本作“毁灭者”）巴比伦城（“城”原文作“女子”）啊！ 照着你待我们的行为报复你的， 那人有福了。
- 中文标准译本 - 将被毁灭的巴比伦城 啊， 照着你向我们所做的去报应你的， 那人是蒙福的！
- 现代标点和合本 - 将要被灭的巴比伦城 啊， 报复你像你待我们的，那人便为有福！
- 和合本（拼音版） - 将要被灭的巴比伦城啊 ， 报复你像你待我们的，那人便为有福。
- New International Version - Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us.
- New International Reader's Version - People of Babylon, you are sentenced to be destroyed. Happy is the person who pays you back according to what you have done to us.
- English Standard Version - O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us!
- New Living Translation - O Babylon, you will be destroyed. Happy is the one who pays you back for what you have done to us.
- New American Standard Bible - Daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, Blessed will be one who repays you With the retribution with which you have repaid us.
- New King James Version - O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed, Happy the one who repays you as you have served us!
- Amplified Bible - O daughter of Babylon, you devastator, How blessed will be the one Who repays you [with destruction] as you have repaid us.
- American Standard Version - O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed, Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee As thou hast served us.
- King James Version - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
- New English Translation - O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated! How blessed will be the one who repays you for what you dished out to us!
- World English Bible - Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as you have done to us.
- 新標點和合本 - 將要被滅的巴比倫城啊（城：原文是女子）， 報復你像你待我們的，那人便為有福！
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 將要被滅的巴比倫 哪， 用你待我們的惡行報復你的，那人有福了。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 將要被滅的巴比倫 哪， 用你待我們的惡行報復你的，那人有福了。
- 當代譯本 - 巴比倫城啊， 你快要滅亡了， 那向你以牙還牙為我們復仇的人有福了！
- 聖經新譯本 - 將要被毀滅的（“將要被毀滅的”有古譯本作“毀滅者”）巴比倫城（“城”原文作“女子”）啊！ 照著你待我們的行為報復你的， 那人有福了。
- 呂振中譯本 - 毁滅者 巴比倫 國 啊， 照你所待我們的去報復你的、 那人有福啊！
- 中文標準譯本 - 將被毀滅的巴比倫城 啊， 照著你向我們所做的去報應你的， 那人是蒙福的！
- 現代標點和合本 - 將要被滅的巴比倫城 啊， 報復你像你待我們的，那人便為有福！
- 文理和合譯本 - 將亡之巴比倫女歟、以爾之待我者待爾、斯人其有福兮、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 巴比倫之邑民兮、昔爾害予、擲嬰孩於石、今有人待爾若此者、必得純嘏兮。
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 必滅亡之 巴比倫 邑 邑原文作女 乎、有人報復爾、如爾之待我儕、願其得福、
- 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 巴比倫 人恣刼奪。可憐稚子亦遭殃。
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Hija de Babilonia, que has de ser destruida, ¡dichoso el que te haga pagar por todo lo que nos has hecho!
- 현대인의 성경 - 바빌론아, 너는 멸망할 것이다. 네가 우리에게 행한 대로 갚아 주는 자가 복이 있으리라.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Господь завершит то, что задумал для меня. Господи, Твоя милость на веки: не оставляй творения Твоих рук!
- Восточный перевод - Вечный свершит то, что задумал для меня. Твоя милость, Вечный, навеки: не оставляй творения Твоих рук!
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Вечный свершит то, что задумал для меня. Твоя милость, Вечный, навеки: не оставляй творения Твоих рук!
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Вечный свершит то, что задумал для меня. Твоя милость, Вечный, навеки: не оставляй творения Твоих рук!
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - O Dame Babylone, ╵tu seras dévastée ! Heureux qui te rendra tout le mal que tu nous as fait !
- リビングバイブル - どう猛な野獣バビロンよ。おまえは滅ぼされる。 おまえを滅ぼす人に、祝福があるように。 おまえは私たちを滅ぼしたからだ。
- Nova Versão Internacional - Ó cidade de Babilônia, destinada à destruição, feliz aquele que lhe retribuir o mal que você nos fez!
- Hoffnung für alle - Babylon, auch dich wird man niederreißen und verwüsten! Glücklich ist, wer dir heimzahlt, was du uns angetan hast!
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Hỡi con gái Ba-by-lôn, các ngươi đã bị định cho diệt vong. Phước cho người báo phạt Ba-by-lôn, vì những gì các ngươi đã làm cho chúng ta.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - โอ ธิดาแห่งบาบิโลน เจ้าจะพินาศย่อยยับ ความสุขมีแก่ผู้ที่คืนสนองเจ้า อย่างสาสมกับที่เจ้าได้ทำกับเรา
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ธิดาแห่งบาบิโลนเอ๋ย เจ้าถูกกำหนดให้ถึงซึ่งความพินาศ ผู้เป็นสุขคือผู้สนองตอบเจ้า อย่างที่เจ้าได้กระทำต่อพวกเรา
Cross Reference
- Revelation 17:1 - Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me: “Come, I will show you the judgment of the notorious prostitute who is seated on many waters.
- Revelation 17:2 - The kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and those who live on the earth became drunk on the wine of her sexual immorality.”
- Revelation 17:3 - Then he carried me away in the Spirit to a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.
- Revelation 17:4 - The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, jewels, and pearls. She had a golden cup in her hand filled with everything detestable and with the impurities of her prostitution.
- Revelation 17:5 - On her forehead was written a name, a mystery: Babylon the Great, the Mother of Prostitutes and of the Detestable Things of the Earth.
- Revelation 17:6 - Then I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. When I saw her, I was greatly astonished.
- Revelation 17:7 - Then the angel said to me, “Why are you astonished? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast, with the seven heads and the ten horns, that carries her.
- Revelation 17:8 - The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up from the abyss and go to destruction. Those who live on the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast that was, and is not, and is to come.
- Revelation 17:9 - This calls for a mind that has wisdom. “The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated. They are also seven kings:
- Revelation 17:10 - Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he comes, he must remain for only a little while.
- Revelation 17:11 - The beast that was and is not, is itself an eighth king, but it belongs to the seven and is going to destruction.
- Revelation 17:12 - The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they will receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.
- Revelation 17:13 - These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
- Revelation 17:14 - These will make war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will conquer them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings. Those with him are called, chosen, and faithful.”
- Revelation 17:15 - He also said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.
- Revelation 17:16 - The ten horns you saw, and the beast, will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked, devour her flesh, and burn her up with fire.
- Revelation 17:17 - For God has put it into their hearts to carry out his plan by having one purpose and to give their kingdom to the beast until the words of God are fulfilled.
- Revelation 17:18 - And the woman you saw is the great city that has royal power over the kings of the earth.”
- Isaiah 47:1 - “Go down and sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, Daughter Chaldea! For you will no longer be called pampered and spoiled.
- Isaiah 47:2 - Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil, strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, wade through the streams.
- Isaiah 47:3 - Your nakedness will be uncovered, and your disgrace will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.”
- Isaiah 47:4 - The Holy One of Israel is our Redeemer; The Lord of Armies is his name.
- Isaiah 47:5 - “Daughter Chaldea, sit in silence and go into darkness. For you will no longer be called mistress of kingdoms.
- Isaiah 47:6 - I was angry with my people; I profaned my possession, and I handed them over to you. You showed them no mercy; you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.
- Isaiah 47:7 - You said, ‘I will be the queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or think about their outcome.
- Isaiah 47:8 - “So now hear this, lover of luxury, who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is no one else. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’
- Isaiah 47:9 - These two things will happen to you suddenly, in one day: loss of children and widowhood. They will happen to you in their entirety, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.
- Isaiah 47:10 - You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray. You said to yourself, ‘I am, and there is no one else.’
- Isaiah 47:11 - But disaster will happen to you; you will not know how to avert it. And it will fall on you, but you will be unable to ward it off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.
- Isaiah 47:12 - So take your stand with your spells and your many sorceries, which you have wearied yourself with from your youth. Perhaps you will be able to succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!
- Isaiah 47:13 - You are worn out with your many consultations. So let the astrologers stand and save you — those who observe the stars, those who predict monthly what will happen to you.
- Isaiah 47:14 - Look, they are like stubble; fire burns them. They cannot rescue themselves from the power of the flame. This is not a coal for warming themselves, or a fire to sit beside!
- Isaiah 47:15 - This is what they are to you — those who have wearied you and have traded with you from your youth — each wanders on his own way; no one can save you.
- Isaiah 44:28 - who says to Cyrus, “My shepherd, he will fulfill all my pleasure” and says to Jerusalem, “She will be rebuilt,” and of the temple, “Its foundation will be laid.”
- Revelation 14:8 - And another, a second angel, followed, saying, “It has fallen, Babylon the Great has fallen. She made all the nations drink the wine of her sexual immorality, which brings wrath.”
- Revelation 14:9 - And another, a third angel, followed them and spoke with a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand,
- Revelation 14:10 - he will also drink the wine of God’s wrath, which is poured full strength into the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the sight of the holy angels and in the sight of the Lamb,
- Revelation 14:11 - and the smoke of their torment will go up forever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or anyone who receives the mark of its name.
- Jeremiah 25:12 - When the seventy years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation’ — this is the Lord’s declaration — ‘the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, and I will make it a ruin forever.
- Jeremiah 25:13 - I will bring on that land all my words I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book that Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
- Jeremiah 25:14 - For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.’”
- Zechariah 2:7 - “Listen, Zion! Escape, you who are living with Daughter Babylon.”
- Jeremiah 50:1 - This is the word the Lord spoke about Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, through the prophet Jeremiah:
- Jeremiah 50:2 - Announce to the nations; proclaim and raise up a signal flag; proclaim, and hide nothing. Say, “Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is terrified.” Her idols are put to shame; her false gods, devastated.
- Jeremiah 50:3 - For a nation from the north will attack her; it will make her land desolate. No one will be living in it — both people and animals will escape.
- Jeremiah 50:4 - In those days and at that time — this is the Lord’s declaration — the Israelites and Judeans will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the Lord their God.
- Jeremiah 50:5 - They will ask about Zion, turning their faces to this road. They will come and join themselves to the Lord in a permanent covenant that will never be forgotten.
- Jeremiah 50:6 - My people were lost sheep; their shepherds led them astray, guiding them the wrong way in the mountains. They wandered from mountain to hill; they forgot their resting place.
- Jeremiah 50:7 - Whoever found them devoured them. Their adversaries said, “We’re not guilty; instead, they have sinned against the Lord, their righteous grazing land, the hope of their ancestors, the Lord.”
- Jeremiah 50:8 - Escape from Babylon; depart from the Chaldeans’ land. Be like the rams that lead the flock.
- Jeremiah 50:9 - For I will soon stir up and bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country. They will line up in battle formation against her; from there she will be captured. Their arrows will be like a skilled warrior who does not return empty-handed.
- Jeremiah 50:10 - The Chaldeans will become plunder; all Babylon’s plunderers will be fully satisfied. This is the Lord’s declaration.
- Jeremiah 50:11 - Because you rejoice, because you celebrate — you who plundered my inheritance — because you frolic like a young cow treading grain and neigh like stallions,
- Jeremiah 50:12 - your mother will be utterly humiliated; she who bore you will be put to shame. Look! She will lag behind all the nations — an arid wilderness, a desert.
- Jeremiah 50:13 - Because of the Lord’s wrath, she will not be inhabited; she will become a desolation, every bit of her. Everyone who passes through Babylon will be appalled and scoff because of all her wounds.
- Jeremiah 50:14 - Line up in battle formation around Babylon, all you archers! Shoot at her! Do not spare an arrow, for she has sinned against the Lord.
- Jeremiah 50:15 - Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her defense towers have fallen; her walls are demolished. Since this is the Lord’s vengeance, take your vengeance on her; as she has done, do the same to her.
- Jeremiah 50:16 - Cut off the sower from Babylon as well as him who wields the sickle at harvest time. Because of the oppressor’s sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to his own land.
- Jeremiah 50:17 - Israel is a stray lamb, chased by lions. The first who devoured him was the king of Assyria; the last who crushed his bones was King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 50:18 - Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I am about to punish the king of Babylon and his land just as I punished the king of Assyria.
- Jeremiah 50:19 - I will return Israel to his grazing land, and he will feed on Carmel and Bashan; he will be satisfied in the hill country of Ephraim and of Gilead.
- Jeremiah 50:20 - In those days and at that time — this is the Lord’s declaration — one will search for Israel’s iniquity, but there will be none, and for Judah’s sins, but they will not be found, for I will forgive those I leave as a remnant.
- Jeremiah 50:21 - Attack the land of Merathaim, and those living in Pekod. Put them to the sword; completely destroy them — this is the Lord’s declaration — do everything I have commanded you.
- Jeremiah 50:22 - The sound of war is in the land — a crushing blow!
- Jeremiah 50:23 - How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and smashed! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
- Jeremiah 50:24 - Babylon, I laid a trap for you, and you were caught, but you did not even know it. You were found and captured because you pitted yourself against the Lord.
- Jeremiah 50:25 - The Lord opened his armory and brought out his weapons of wrath, because it is a task of the Lord God of Armies in the land of the Chaldeans.
- Jeremiah 50:26 - Come against her from the most distant places. Open her granaries; pile her up like mounds of grain and completely destroy her. Leave her no survivors.
- Jeremiah 50:27 - Put all her young bulls to the sword; let them go down to the slaughter. Woe to them because their day has come, the time of their punishment.
- Jeremiah 50:28 - There is a voice of fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon. The voice announces in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance for his temple.
- Jeremiah 50:29 - Summon the archers to Babylon, all who string the bow; camp all around her; let none escape. Repay her according to her deeds; just as she has done, do the same to her, for she has acted arrogantly against the Lord, against the Holy One of Israel.
- Jeremiah 50:30 - Therefore, her young men will fall in her public squares; all the warriors will perish in that day. This is the Lord’s declaration.
- Jeremiah 50:31 - Look, I am against you, you arrogant one — this is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies — for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.
- Jeremiah 50:32 - The arrogant will stumble and fall with no one to pick him up. I will set fire to his cities, and it will consume everything around him.
- Jeremiah 50:33 - This is what the Lord of Armies says: Israelites and Judeans alike have been oppressed. All their captors hold them fast; they refuse to release them.
- Jeremiah 50:34 - Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of Armies is his name. He will fervently champion their cause so that he might bring rest to the earth but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.
- Jeremiah 50:35 - A sword is over the Chaldeans — this is the Lord’s declaration — against those who live in Babylon, against her officials, and against her sages.
- Jeremiah 50:36 - A sword is against the diviners, and they will act foolishly. A sword is against her heroic warriors, and they will be terrified.
- Jeremiah 50:37 - A sword is against his horses and chariots and against all the foreigners among them, and they will be like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.
- Jeremiah 50:38 - A drought will come on her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of carved images, and they go mad because of terrifying things.
- Jeremiah 50:39 - Therefore, desert creatures will live with hyenas, and ostriches will also live in her. It will never again be inhabited or lived in through all generations.
- Jeremiah 50:40 - Just as God demolished Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns — this is the Lord’s declaration — so no one will live there; no human being will stay in it even temporarily as a temporary resident.
- Jeremiah 50:41 - Look! A people comes from the north. A great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the remote regions of the earth.
- Jeremiah 50:42 - They grasp bow and javelin. They are cruel and show no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, lined up like men in battle formation against you, Daughter Babylon.
- Jeremiah 50:43 - The king of Babylon has heard about them; his hands have become weak. Distress has seized him — pain, like a woman in labor.
- Jeremiah 50:44 - “Look, it will be like a lion coming from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered grazing land. I will chase Babylon away from her land in a flash. I will appoint whoever is chosen for her. For who is like me? Who will issue me a summons? Who is the shepherd who can stand against me?”
- Jeremiah 50:45 - Therefore, hear the plans that the Lord has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies he has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Certainly the flock’s little lambs will be dragged away; certainly the grazing land will be made desolate because of them.
- Jeremiah 50:46 - At the sound of Babylon’s conquest the earth will quake; a cry will be heard among the nations.
- Revelation 18:20 - Rejoice over her, heaven, and you saints, apostles, and prophets, because God has pronounced on her the judgment she passed on you!
- Isaiah 21:1 - A pronouncement concerning the desert by the sea: Like storms that pass over the Negev, it comes from the desert, from the land of terror.
- Isaiah 14:4 - you will sing this song of contempt about the king of Babylon and say: How the oppressor has quieted down, and how the raging has become quiet!
- Isaiah 14:5 - The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.
- Isaiah 14:6 - It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows. It subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.
- Isaiah 14:7 - The whole earth is calm and at rest; people shout with a ringing cry.
- Isaiah 14:8 - Even the cypresses and the cedars of Lebanon rejoice over you: “Since you have been laid low, no lumberjack has come against us.”
- Isaiah 14:9 - Sheol below is eager to greet your coming, stirring up the spirits of the departed for you — all the rulers of the earth — making all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.
- Isaiah 14:10 - They all respond to you, saying, “You too have become as weak as we are; you have become like us!
- Isaiah 14:11 - Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.”
- Isaiah 14:12 - Shining morning star, how you have fallen from the heavens! You destroyer of nations, you have been cut down to the ground.
- Isaiah 14:13 - You said to yourself, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will set up my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of the gods’ assembly, in the remotest parts of the North.
- Isaiah 14:14 - I will ascend above the highest clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
- Isaiah 14:15 - But you will be brought down to Sheol into the deepest regions of the Pit.
- Isaiah 14:16 - Those who see you will stare at you; they will look closely at you: “Is this the man who caused the earth to tremble, who shook the kingdoms,
- Isaiah 14:17 - who turned the world into a wilderness, who destroyed its cities and would not release the prisoners to return home?”
- Isaiah 14:18 - All the kings of the nations lie in splendor, each in his own tomb.
- Isaiah 14:19 - But you are thrown out without a grave, like a worthless branch, covered by those slain with the sword and dumped into a rocky pit like a trampled corpse.
- Isaiah 14:20 - You will not join them in burial, because you destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of evildoers will never be mentioned again.
- Isaiah 14:21 - Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons, because of the iniquity of their ancestors. They will never rise up to possess a land or fill the surface of the earth with cities.
- Isaiah 14:22 - “I will rise up against them” — this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies — “and I will cut off from Babylon her reputation, remnant, offspring, and posterity” — this is the Lord’s declaration.
- Isaiah 14:23 - “I will make her a swampland and a region for herons, and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction.” This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.
- Isaiah 14:24 - The Lord of Armies has sworn: As I have purposed, so it will be; as I have planned it, so it will happen.
- Psalms 149:6 - Let the exaltation of God be in their mouths and a double-edged sword in their hands,
- Psalms 149:7 - inflicting vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,
- Psalms 149:8 - binding their kings with chains and their dignitaries with iron shackles,
- Psalms 149:9 - carrying out the judgment decreed against them. This honor is for all his faithful people. Hallelujah!
- Isaiah 13:1 - A pronouncement concerning Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:
- Isaiah 13:2 - Lift up a banner on a barren mountain. Call out to them. Signal with your hand, and they will go through the gates of the nobles.
- Isaiah 13:3 - I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my warriors, who celebrate my triumph, to execute my wrath.
- Isaiah 13:4 - 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.
- Isaiah 13:5 - They are coming from a distant land, from the farthest horizon — the Lord and the weapons of his wrath — to destroy the whole country.
- Isaiah 13:6 - Wail! For the day of the Lord is near. It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
- Isaiah 13:7 - Therefore everyone’s hands will become weak, and every man will lose heart.
- Isaiah 13:8 - They will be horrified; pain and agony will seize them; they will be in anguish like a woman in labor. They will look at each other, their faces flushed with fear.
- Isaiah 13:9 - Look, the day of the Lord is coming — cruel, with fury and burning anger — to make the earth a desolation and to destroy its sinners.
- Isaiah 13:10 - Indeed, the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will not shine.
- Isaiah 13:11 - I will punish the world for its evil, and wicked people for their iniquities. I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant and humiliate the insolence of tyrants.
- Isaiah 13:12 - I will make a human more scarce than fine gold, and mankind more rare than the gold of Ophir.
- Isaiah 13:13 - Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will shake from its foundations at the wrath of the Lord of Armies, on the day of his burning anger.
- Isaiah 13:14 - Like wandering gazelles and like sheep without a shepherd, each one will turn to his own people, each one will flee to his own land.
- Isaiah 13:15 - Whoever is found will be stabbed, and whoever is caught will die by the sword.
- Isaiah 13:16 - Their children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be looted, and their wives raped.
- Isaiah 13:17 - Look! I am stirring up the Medes against them, who cannot be bought off with silver and who have no desire for gold.
- Isaiah 13:18 - Their bows will cut young men to pieces. They will have no compassion on offspring; they will not look with pity on children.
- Isaiah 13:19 - And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.
- Isaiah 13:20 - It will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation; a nomad will not pitch his tent there, and shepherds will not let their flocks rest there.
- Isaiah 13:21 - But desert creatures will lie down there, and owls will fill the houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.
- Isaiah 13:22 - Hyenas will howl in the fortresses, and jackals, in the luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is almost up; her days are almost over.
- Revelation 18:6 - Pay her back the way she also paid, and double it according to her works. In the cup in which she mixed, mix a double portion for her.