Isaiah 13:5 Cross References - Rotherham

⁵ They are coming in, From a land far away, From the utmost bound of the heavens,––Yahweh––with his weapons of indignation, To destroy the land.

²⁶ Therefore will he lift up an ensign to the nations afar off, And signal for him from the end of the earth,––And lo! with hot haste, will he come:

¹⁷ Behold me! stirring up against them, the Medes,––Who, of silver, shall take no account, And, as for gold, they shall not delight in it;

¹ Lo! Yahweh emptying the earth, and laying it waste,––And he will overturn the face thereof, And scatter them who dwell therein.

³ For there hath come up against her––a nation out of the North, The same, shall make her land an astonishment, And there shall be none to dwell therein,––Both man and beast, have removed––have gone!

⁹ For lo! I, am rousing and bringing up against Babylon, a gathered host of great nations, out of the land of the North, And they shall array themselves against her, From thence, shall she be captured,––His arrows, are as of a hero making childless, None shall return, empty.

¹¹ Polish the arrows, Lay hold of the shields,––Yahweh hath roused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, For, against Babylon, his purpose is, to destroy her,––For it is, The avenging of Yahweh, The avenging of his temple.

²⁰ A war–club, art thou, for me, Weapons of war; Therefore will I, Beat down with thee––nations, and, Destroy with thee––kingdoms; ²¹ and, Beat down with thee––the horse and his rider,––and, Beat down with thee––the chariot and its rider; ²² and, Beat down with thee––man and woman, and, Beat down with thee––elder and youth, and, Beat down with thee––young man and virgin; ²³ and, Beat down with thee––the shepherd and his flock, and, Beat down with thee––the plowman and his yoke; ––and, Beat down with thee––governors and deputies: ²⁴ So will I recompense to Babylon, And to all the inhabitants of Chaldea, All their wickedness which they have committed against Zion, before your eyes,––Declareth Yahweh. ²⁵ Behold me! against thee, O destroying mountain, Declareth Yahweh, That destroyest all the earth,––Therefore will I stretch out my hand over thee, And roll thee down from the crags, And make of thee a burning, mountain: ²⁶ So shall they not fetch from thee, A stone for a corner, nor, A stone for a foundation,––For, desolations age–abiding, shalt thou become, Declareth Yahweh. ²⁷ Set ye up an ensign in the earth, Blow ye a horn among the nations, Hallow against her––nations, Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz,––Set in charge against her a marshal, Bring up cavalry like hairy locusts: ²⁸ Hallow against her––nations, With the kings of Media, With her governors and all her deputies,––And with all the land of his dominion: ²⁹ Then did the land tremble, and was in pain,––For the plans of Yahweh, had been established against Babylon, To make the land of Babylon an astonishment, without inhabitant. ³⁰ The heroes of Babylon have ceased, to fight, They have remained in the strongholds, Parched, is their might, They have become women,––They have set fire to her habitations, Broken, are her bars! ³¹ Runner to meet runner, shall they run, And teller to meet teller,––To tell the king of Babylon, That captured, is his city at the end! ³² and, The fords, have been seized, and, The reeds, have they burned with fire; and, The men of war, are dismayed! ³³ For, thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon, is like a threshing–floor, at the time of treading her: Yet a little, and the time of harvest shall overtake her. ³⁴ Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon––Hath devoured me, Hath vexed me, Hath set me down as an empty vessel, He hath swallowed me like a sea–monster, He hath filled his belly with my dainties,––He hath driven me away! ³⁵ The violence done to me and to my flesh, be upon Babylon! Shall the inhabitress of Zion say,––Yea, my blood, be upon the inhabitant of Chaldea! Shall Jerusalem say. ³⁶ Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, Behold me! pleading thy cause, So then I will execute the avenging of thee; And will dry up her sea, And make dry her spring: ³⁷ Thus shall Babylon become–Heaps, A habitation of jackals, An astonishment, and, A hissing, Without inhabitant. ³⁸ Together, like wild lions, shall they roar,––They have growled like lions’ whelps. ³⁹ When they are heated, I will spread their banquets, And let them drink that they may become uproarious, So shall they sleep an age–abiding sleep and not wake,––Declareth Yahweh. ⁴⁰ I will bring them down, As fat lambs to slaughter,––As rams, with he–goats. ⁴¹ How, hath Sheshach, been captured! How, hath the praise of all the earth, been seized! How, hath Babylon, become an astonishment among the nations! ⁴² The sea, hath gone up over Babylon,––With the multitude of its rolling waves, is she covered. ⁴³ Her cities, have become, an astonishment, A land parched up, and a waste plain,––A land wherein shall no man dwell, Nor, pass through them, a son of the earth–born! ⁴⁴ So will I bring punishment upon Bel in Babylon, And will bring forth what he hath swallowed, out of his mouth, And the nations, shall stream unto him no more,––Even the wall of Babylon, hath fallen! ⁴⁵ Come ye forth out of her midst, O my people, And deliver ye every man his own life,––Because of the glow of the anger of Yahweh. ⁴⁶ And let not your heart be timid, nor be ye afraid, Because of the report that is reported in the earth, When there shall come, in one year, the report, And, after that, in another year, the report, With violence in the earth, and ruler upon ruler.

³¹ And he will send forth his messengers, with a great trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen––Out of the four winds, from heavens’ bounds, unto their bounds.