I will record Rahab and BABYLON among those who acknowledge me.Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia:"This one was born there."

8. Daughter of BABYLON, doomed to destruction,he will be happy who rewards you,as you have served us.

9. Happy shall he be,who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock.

1. The burden of BABYLON, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

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 have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.

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! the LORD of Hosts is mustering the army for the battle.

5. They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even The LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

6. Wail; for the day of the LORD is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

7. Therefore all hands will be feeble, and everyone's heart will melt.

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. Behold, the day of the LORD 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 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. 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 haughtiness of the terrible.

12. I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.

13. Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place in the LORD of Hosts' wrath, and in the day of his fierce anger.

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. Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

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 the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.

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. BABYLON, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

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 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. Wolves will cry in their fortresses, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.

4. that you will take up this parable against the king of BABYLON, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!"

5. The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

6. who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.

7. The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song.

8. Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us."

9. Sheo l from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

10. They all will answer and ask you, "Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?"

11. Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

12. How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

13. You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!

14. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!"

15. Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

16. Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;

17. who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn't release his prisoners to their home?"

18. All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

19. But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

20. You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.

21. Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.

22. "I will rise up against them," says the LORD of Hosts, "and cut off from BABYLON name and remnant, and son and son's son," says The LORD.

23. "I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says the LORD of Hosts.

24. The LORD of Armies has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

25. that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.

26. This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

1. The burden of the wilderness of the sea.As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from an awesome land.

2. A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media's sighing.

3. Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can't hear. I so am dismayed that I can't see.

4. My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.

5. They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!

6. For the Lord said to me, "Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.

7. When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness."

8. He cried like a lion: "Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

9. Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs." He answered, "Fallen, fallen is BABYLON; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.

10. You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!" That which I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.

1. Bel bows down.Nebo stoops.Their idols are carried by animals,and on the livestock.The things that you carried around are heavy loads,a burden for the weary.

2. They stoop and they bow down together.They could not deliver the burden,but they have gone into captivity.

1. "Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of BABYLON.Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans.For you will no longer be called tender and delicate.

2. Take the millstones, and grind flour.Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs,and wade through the rivers.

3. Your nakedness will be uncovered.Yes, your shame will be seen.I will take vengeance,and will spare no one."

4. Our Redeemer, the LORD of Hosts is his name,is the Holy One of Israel.

5. "Sit in silence, and go into darkness,daughter of the Chaldeans.For you shall no longer be calledthe mistress of kingdoms.

6. I was angry with my people.I profaned my inheritance,and gave them into your hand.You showed them no mercy.You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

7. You said, 'I will be a princess forever;'so that you did not lay these things to your heart,nor did you remember the results.

8. "Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures,who sit securely,who say in your heart,'I am, and there is no one else besides me.I shall not sit as a widow,neither shall I know the loss of children.'

9. But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day,the loss of children and widowhood.They will come on you in their full measure,in the multitude of your sorceries,and the great abundance of your enchantments.

10. For you have trusted in your wickedness.You have said, 'No one sees me.'Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you.You have said in your heart, 'I am, and there is no one else besides me.'

11. Therefore disaster will come on you.You won't know when it dawns.Mischief will fall on you.You won't be able to put it away.Desolation will come on you suddenly,which you don't understand.

12. "Stand now with your enchantments,and with the multitude of your sorceries,in which you have labored from your youth;as if you might profit;as if you might prevail.

13. You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels.Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators, stand up and save you from the things that will come on you.

14. Behold, they are like stubble.The fire will burn them.They won't deliver themselves from the power of the flame.It won't be a coal to warm ator a fire to sit by.

15. The things that you labored in will be like this:those who have trafficked with you from your youth will each wander in his own way.There will be no one to save you.