Isaiah 13:5 Cross References - Leeser

⁵ They are coming from a far-off country, from the end of the heavens, here is the Lord, with the weapons of his indignation, to destroy all the land.

²⁶ And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from afar, and will call for one of them from the end of the earth; and, behold, with speed, swiftly, it cometh;

¹⁷ Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes; who will not regard silver, and who will not delight in gold.

¹ Behold, the Lord maketh empty the land, and layeth it waste, marreth its surface, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.

³ For there is come up against her a nation out of the north, which will change her land into a desert, so that there shall not be any one dwelling therein: both man and beast are fled away, they are departed.

⁹ For, lo, I will awaken and cause to come up against Babylon an assemblage of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in battle-array against her; from there shall she be captured: their arrows are as those of a skilful mighty one, none of which ever returneth in vain.

¹¹ Make bright the arrows; fill the quivers: the Lord hath awakened the spirit of the kings of Media; for against Babylon is his intention, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance for his temple.

²⁰ Thou art a hammer unto me, weapons of war; and I strike down with thee nations, and I destroy with thee kingdoms; ²¹ And I strike down with thee the horse and his rider; and I strike down with thee the chariot and its rider; ²² And I strike down with thee man and woman; and I strike down with thee the aged and the lad; and I strike down with thee the young man and the virgin: ²³ And I strike down with thee the shepherd and his flock; and I strike down with thee the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and I strike down with thee governors and rulers. ²⁴ But now will I repay unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion before your eyes, saith the Lord. ²⁵ Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand over thee, and I will roll thee down from the rocks, and will render thee a burnt mountain. ²⁶ And they shall not take from thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but everlasting ruins shalt thou be, saith the Lord. ²⁷ Lift ye up a standard in the land, blow ye the cornet among the nations, make ready against her nations, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint against her a commander; cause the horses to come up like the hairy locusts. ²⁸ Make ready against her the nations with the kings of Media, its governors, and all its rulers, and all the land of their dominion. ²⁹ And the earth quaketh and trembleth; for every one of the purposes of the Lord is fulfilled against Babylon, to change the land of Babylon into a desolate country without an inhabitant. ³⁰ The mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight, they sit still in their strongholds; their might is vanished; they are become as women: they have burnt her dwelling-places; her bars are broken. ³¹ One runner shall run to meet another runner, and one messenger to meet another messenger, to tell unto the king of Babylon that his city is captured at all ends, ³² And that the passages have been seized, and that they have burnt the reeds with fire, and that the men of war are affrighted. ³³ For thus hath said the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, the daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor, at the time they thresh therein; but yet a little while more, when the time of harvest shall come for her. ³⁴ “Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon devoured me, he crushed me, he set me down as an empty vessel, he swallowed me up like a huge serpent, he filled his belly with my delicacies: he drove me out. ³⁵ the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” will the inhabitress of Zion say; and “My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,” will Jerusalem say. ³⁶ Therefore thus hath said the Lord, Behold, I will contend in thy cause, and execute vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and cause her springs to fail. ³⁷ And Babylon shall become ruinous heaps, a dwelling-place for monsters, an astonishment, and a derision, without an inhabitant. ³⁸ Together like lions shall they roar: they shall yell like the lions’ whelps. ³⁹ When they are heated will I prepare their drinking-feasts, and I will make them drunken, in order that they may be joyful, and then sleep a perpetual sleep, and not awake again, saith the Lord. ⁴⁰ I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like wethers with he-goats. ⁴¹ How is Sheshach captured! and how is conquered the praise of the whole earth! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations! ⁴² The sea is come up over Babylon: with the multitude of its waves is she covered. ⁴³ Her cities are become desolate places, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein not any man shall dwell, and through which no son of man shall pass along. ⁴⁴ And I will inflict punishment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth what he hath swallowed up out of his mouth; and nations shall not assemble together like a stream unto him any more; yea, the wall of Babylon also is fallen. ⁴⁵ Go ye out of the midst of her, my people, and save ye every man his life from the fierceness of the anger of the Lord. ⁴⁶ And so that your heart may not faint, and ye fear at the report that is heard in the land: when the report cometh in one year, and after that in another year cometh another report, and when violence be done in the land, by ruler against ruler.