1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:

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Isaiah 47:1, Isaiah 47:15, Isaiah 47:1, Isaiah 47:15, Isaiah 1:1

2Set 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.

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Isaiah 5:26, Jeremiah 51:58, Isaiah 5:26, Jeremiah 51:58, Jeremiah 50:2

3I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.

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Joel 3:11, Joel 3:11, Jeremiah 51:20, Jeremiah 51:24, Revelation 17:12

4The 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.

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Joel 3:14, Joel 3:14, Ezekiel 38:3, Ezekiel 38:23, Joel 2:25

5They 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.

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Matthew 24:31, Matthew 24:31, Isaiah 24:1, Isaiah 13:17, Jeremiah 51:20

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

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Joel 1:15, Joel 1:15, Amos 5:18, Zephaniah 1:7, Isaiah 13:9

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

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Ezekiel 21:7, Ezekiel 21:7, Nahum 1:6, Ezekiel 7:17, Isaiah 19:1

8They 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.

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Isaiah 26:17, Nahum 2:10, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, Isaiah 26:17, Nahum 2:10

9Behold, 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.

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Malachi 4:1, Nahum 1:6, Malachi 4:1, Nahum 1:6, Isaiah 13:15

10For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

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Matthew 24:29, Matthew 24:29, Joel 2:31, Mark 13:24, Joel 2:31

11I 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.

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Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 2:11, Isaiah 5:15, Daniel 5:22, Daniel 5:23

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

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Isaiah 4:1, Isaiah 4:1, Isaiah 24:6, Isaiah 24:6, Job 28:16

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

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Hebrews 12:26, Hebrews 12:27, Hebrews 12:26, Hebrews 12:27, Joel 3:16

14It 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.

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1 Kings 22:17, 1 Kings 22:17, Jeremiah 50:16, Jeremiah 50:16, 1 Kings 22:36

15Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

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Jeremiah 50:25, Jeremiah 50:35, Jeremiah 50:42, Jeremiah 50:27, Isaiah 14:19

16Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.

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Hosea 10:14, Nahum 3:10, Hosea 10:14, Nahum 3:10, Psalms 137:8

17Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it.

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Jeremiah 51:11, Jeremiah 51:11, Proverbs 6:34, Proverbs 6:35, Daniel 5:28

18Their 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.

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2 Kings 8:12, 2 Kings 8:12, 2 Chronicles 36:17, 2 Chronicles 36:17, Isaiah 13:16

19Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Daniel 4:30, Genesis 19:24, Daniel 4:30, Genesis 19:24, Zephaniah 2:9

20It 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.

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Jeremiah 51:43, Isaiah 14:23, Jeremiah 51:43, Isaiah 14:23, Jeremiah 50:39

21But 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.

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Revelation 18:2, Revelation 18:2, Isaiah 34:11, Isaiah 34:15, Isaiah 34:11

22Wolves will cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, and her days will not be prolonged.

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Isaiah 25:2, Isaiah 35:7, Jeremiah 51:33, Isaiah 25:2, Isaiah 35:7