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.

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.

14. The LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: "For your sake, I have sent to BABYLON, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.

15. I am The LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King."

16. The LORD, who makes a way in the sea,and a path in the mighty waters says:

17. who brings out the chariot and horse,the army and the mighty man(they lie down together, they shall not rise;they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick):

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.

1. The LORD says, "Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away?or to which of my creditors have I sold you?Behold, you were sold for your iniquities,and your mother was put away for your transgressions.

2. Why, when I came, was there no one?when I called, why was there no one to answer?Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem?or have I no power to deliver?Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea.I make the rivers a wilderness:their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

3. I clothe the heavens with blackness,and I make sackcloth their covering."

4. The Lord the LORD has given me the tongue of those who are taught,that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary.He wakens morning by morning,he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

5. The Lord the LORD has opened my ear,and I was not rebellious.I have not turned back.

6. I gave my back to those who beat me,and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair.I didn't hide my face from shame and spitting.

7. For the Lord the LORD will help me.Therefore I have not been confounded.Therefore I have set my face like a flint,and I know that I shall not be disappointed.

8. He who justifies me is near.Who will bring charges against me?Let us stand up together.Who is my adversary?Let him come near to me.

9. Behold, the Lord the LORD will help me!Who is he who will condemn me?Behold, they will all grow old like a garment.The moths will eat them up.

10. Who among you fears The LORD,and obeys the voice of his servant?He who walks in darkness,and has no light,let him trust in The LORD's name,and rely on his God.

11. Behold, all you who kindle a fire,who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves;walk in the flame of your fire,and among the torches that you have kindled.You will have this from my hand:You will lie down in sorrow.