1A prophecy concerning 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

2Upon the bare mountain lift up a banner; Cry aloud to them, wave the hand, That they may enter the gates of the tyrants!

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

3I have given orders to my consecrated ones, Yea, I have called upon my mighty ones to execute mine anger, My proud exulters!

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

4The noise of a multitude upon the mountains, like that of a great people! The tumultuous noise of kingdoms, of nations gathered together! Jehovah of hosts mustereth his army for battle.

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

5They come from a distant country, From the end of Heaven, Jehovah and the instruments of his indignation. To lay waste the whole land.

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

6Howl ye, for the day of Jehovah is at hand! Like a destruction from the Almighty, it cometh;

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

7Therefore shall all hands hang down, And every heart of man shall melt.

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

8They shall be in consternation; Distress and anguish shall lay hold of them; As a woman in travail shall they writhe; They shall look upon one another with amazement: Their faces shall glow like flames.

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

9Behold! the day of Jehovah cometh, Terrible, full of wrath and burning indignation, To make the land a waste, And to destroy the 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 heaven, and the constellations thereof, Shall not give their light; The sun shall be darkened at his going forth, And the moon shall withhold her light.

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

11For I will punish the world for its guilt, And the wicked for their iniquity. I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud, And I will bring down the haughtiness of the tyrants.

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

12I will make men scarcer than gold; Yea, men than the 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 shall be shaken out of her place, In the anger of Jehovah of hosts, In the day of his burning indignation.

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

14Then shall they be like a chased doe; Like a flock, which no one gathereth together; Every one shall turn to his own people, And every one flee to his own land.

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

15Every one that is overtaken shall be thrust through, And every one that is caught shall fall by the sword.

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

16Their children shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; Their houses shall be plundered, and their wives ravished.

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

17Behold, I stir up against them the Medes, Who make no account of silver, And as to gold, they do not regard it.

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

18Their bows shall strike down the young men, And on the fruit of the womb they shall have no compassion; Their eye shall not pity the children.

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

19So shall Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The proud ornament of the Chaldeans, Be like Sodom and Gomorrah, which God overthrew,

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

20It shall never more be inhabited; Nor shall it be dwelt in through all generations. Nor shall the Arabian pitch his tent there, Nor shall shepherds make their folds there.

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

21But there shall the wild beasts of the desert lodge, And owls shall fill their houses; And ostriches shall dwell there, And satyrs shall dance there.

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

22Wolves shall howl in their palaces, And jackals in their pleasant edifices. Her time is near, And her days shall not be prolonged.

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