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Isaiah 13 Brenton's English Septuagint

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Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 The Vision which Esaias son of Amos saw against Babylon.
1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
2 Lift up a standard on the mountain of the plain, exalt the voice to them, beckon with the hand, open [the gates], ye rulers.
2 Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3 I give command, and I bring them: giants are coming to fulfil my wrath, rejoicing at the same time and insulting.
3 I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
4 A voice of many nations on the mountains, [even] like [to that] of many nations; a voice of kings and nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts has given command to a war-like nation,
4 The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, as of a great people; the noise of an uproar of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of Armies is mustering the army for the battle.
5 to come from a land afar off, from the utmost foundation of heaven; the Lord and his warriors [are coming] to destroy all the world.
5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6 Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near, and destruction from God shall arrive.
6 Wail, for Yahweh’s day is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore every hand shall become powerless, and every soul of man shall be dismayed.
7 Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone’s heart will melt.
8 The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in travail: and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame.
8 They will be dismayed. Pangs and sorrows will seize them. They will be in pain like a woman in labor. They will look in amazement one at another. Their faces will be faces of flame.
9 For behold! the day of the Lord is coming which cannot be escaped, [a day] of wrath and anger, to make the world desolate, and to destroy sinners out of it.
9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the land a desolation, and to destroy its sinners out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven, and Orion, and all the host of heaven, shall not give their light; and it shall be dark at sunrise, and the moon shall not give her light.
10 For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.
11 And I will command evils for the whole world, and [will visit] their sins on the ungodly: and I will destroy the pride of transgressors, and will bring low the pride of the haughty.
11 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.
12 And they that are left shall be more precious than gold tried in the fire; and a man shall be more precious than the stone that is in Suphir.
12 I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.
13 For the heaven shall be enraged, and the earth shall be shaken from her foundation, because of the fierce anger of the Lord of hosts, in the day in which his wrath shall come on.
13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And they that are left shall be as a fleeing fawn, and as a stray sheep, and there shall be none to gather [them]: so that a man shall turn back to his people, and a man shall flee to his own land.
14 It will happen that like a hunted gazelle and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.
15 For whosoever shall be taken shall be overcome; and they that are gathered together shall fall by the sword.
15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
16 And they shall dash their children before their eyes; and they shall spoil their houses, and shall take their wives.
16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
17 Behold, I will stir up against you the Medes, who do not regard silver, neither have they need of gold.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.
18 They shall break the bows of the young men; and they shall have no mercy on your children; nor shall their eyes spare thy children.
18 Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.
19 And Babylon, which is called glorious by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be as [when] God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorrha.
19 Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall any enter into it for many generations: neither shall the Arabians pass through it; nor shall shepherds at all rest in it.
20 It will never be inhabited, neither will it be lived in from generation to generation. The Arabian will not pitch a tent there, neither will shepherds make their flocks lie down there.
21 But wild beasts shall rest there; and the houses shall be filled with howling; and monsters shall rest there, and devils shall dance there,
21 But wild animals of the desert will lie there, and their houses will be full of jackals. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will frolic there.
22 and satyrs shall dwell there; and hedgehogs shall make their nests in their houses. It will come soon, and will not tarry.
22 Hyenas will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.
Cross references (22)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Isaiah 47:1–15; Jeremiah 50:1–51:64; Isaiah 1:1; Daniel 5:28; Revelation 17:1–18
  2. 2 Jeremiah 51:58; Isaiah 5:26; Jeremiah 50:2; Jeremiah 51:25; Isaiah 45:1–3
  3. 3 Joel 3:11; Jeremiah 51:20–24; Revelation 17:12–18; Revelation 18:20–19:7; Ezra 7:12–26
  4. 4 Joel 3:14; Joel 2:25; Ezekiel 38:3–23; Revelation 19:11–21; Joel 2:1–11
  5. 5 Matthew 24:31; Jeremiah 50:9; Jeremiah 51:20–46; Jeremiah 50:3; Isaiah 5:26
  6. 6 Joel 1:15; Amos 5:18; Ezekiel 30:2–3; Zephaniah 1:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:2–3
  7. 7 Ezekiel 21:7; Nahum 2:10; Nahum 1:6; Ezekiel 7:17; Isaiah 19:1
  8. 8 Nahum 2:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Isaiah 26:17; Isaiah 21:3–4; John 16:21
  9. 9 Malachi 4:1; Nahum 1:6; Isaiah 13:15–18; Isaiah 13:6; Jeremiah 51:35–58
  10. 10 Joel 2:31; Matthew 24:29; Mark 13:24; Ezekiel 32:7–8; Joel 3:15
  11. 11 Isaiah 2:11; Isaiah 5:15; Jeremiah 50:29–32; Daniel 5:22–23; Isaiah 3:11
  12. 12 Isaiah 4:1; Isaiah 24:6; Psalm 137:9; Job 28:16; Isaiah 13:15–18
  13. 13 Hebrews 12:26–27; Joel 3:16; Matthew 24:29; Nahum 1:4–6; Haggai 2:6–7
  14. 14 Jeremiah 50:16; 1 Kings 22:17; 1 Kings 22:36; Jeremiah 51:9; Isaiah 17:13
  15. 15 Jeremiah 50:25; Jeremiah 51:3–4; Jeremiah 50:27; Isaiah 47:9–14; Jeremiah 50:35–42
  16. 16 Hosea 10:14; Nahum 3:10; Psalm 137:8–9; Isaiah 13:18; Zechariah 14:2
  17. 17 Daniel 5:28–31; Jeremiah 51:11; Jeremiah 50:9; Isaiah 41:25; Jeremiah 51:27–28
  18. 18 2 Kings 8:12; 2 Chronicles 36:17; Isaiah 13:16; Hosea 13:16; Ezekiel 9:10
  19. 19 Daniel 4:30; Jeremiah 50:40; Zephaniah 2:9; Amos 4:11; Deuteronomy 29:23
  20. 20 Jeremiah 51:43; Isaiah 14:23; Jeremiah 50:45; 2 Chronicles 17:11; Jeremiah 50:3
  21. 21 Revelation 18:2; Isaiah 34:11–15
  22. 22 Isaiah 35:7; Isaiah 25:2; Jeremiah 51:33; Deuteronomy 32:35; Habakkuk 2:3

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 13:9 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book V, Chapter XXVII)

    … shall be no men in them and the land shall be left desolate." "For, behold," says Isaiah, "the day of the Lord cometh past remedy, full of fury and wrath, to lay waste the city of the earth, and to root sinners out of it." And again he says, "Let him be taken away, that he behold not the glory …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  2. Quotes verse 13:9 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XLIII)

    Concerning that day, hear the prophets, saying, "The day of the Lord is incurable, full of anger and wrath." For there will be none to stand by, none to rescue, nowhere the face of Christ, so mild and calm.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)