Isaiah 13:4 Cross References - Rotherham

⁴ The noise of a multitude in the mountains, A resemblance of many people,––The noise of a tumult of kingdoms, Nations gathered together, Yahweh of hosts, mustering a host for battle!

⁵ Alas! for Assyria, the rod of mine anger,––Yea, the very staff in their hand, is, my displeasure: ⁶ Against an irreligious nation, will I send him, Yea, against the people with whom I am wroth, will I command him,––To capture spoil, And lay hold on prey, And cause them to be trodden down as the mire of the lanes.

¹ The oracle on the valley of vision,––What aileth thee, then, That thou art wholly gone up to the house–tops? ² With tumults, art thou filled, thou citadel in commotion! city exultant! Thy slain, are, Not the slain, of the sword, Nor the dead in battle. ³ All thy ruler, having fled, together, by the bow, are taken captive: All found in thee have been taken captive, together, Far away, have they fled. ⁴ For this cause, I said––Look away from me, Bitterly, will I weep,––Do not press to comfort me, For the ruin of the daughter of my people. ⁵ For, a day of confusion and downtreading and perplexity, pertaineth to My Lord Yahweh of hosts, in the valley of vision, an undermining of walls, and a crying for help to the mountain. ⁶ Yea, Elam, beareth the quiver, With trains of men, [and] horsemen,––And, Kir, hath uncovered the shield. ⁷ And it hath come to pass that, the choice of thy vales, are full of chariots; Yea, the horsemen, have set themselves, in array, at the gate.
⁸ Then removed he the veil of Judah,––Yea thou didst peer, on that day, into the armoury of the forest–house; ⁹ And, the breaches in the city of David, ye beheld, for they were many,––So ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool;

¹ Thus, saith Yahweh, to his Anointed, to Cyrus––Whose right hand I have firmly grasped, To subdue, before him, nations, And, the loins of kings, will I ungird,––To open, before him, the two–leaved doors, And, the gates, shall not be shut: ² I, before thee, will go, And, the hills, will I level––The doors of bronze, will I break in pieces, And, the bars of iron, will I cut asunder;

² Tell ye among the nations, And let it be heard, And lift ye up a standard, Let it be heard, do not conceal: Say ye––Captured, is Babylon, Confounded, is Bel, Broken in pieces, is Merodach, Confounded, are her images, Broken down, her manufactured gods; 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!

¹⁴ Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, All ye who tread the bow, Shoot at her, do not spare so much as an arrow,––For, against Yahweh, hath she sinned. ¹⁵ Raise a shout against her round about, She hath stretched forth her hand, Fallen, are her buttresses, Torn down, are her walls,––Because, the avenging of Yahweh, it is, Take ye vengeance upon her, As she hath done, do ye, unto her.

²¹ Against the land of Merathaim, go thou up against her, And against the inhabitants of Pekod,––Lay waste and devote to destruction after them, Declareth Yahweh, And do according to all which I have commanded thee. ²² The, sound of battle, is in the earth,––And a great destruction. ²³ How, is cut and broken, the hammer of all the earth! How hath, Babylon, become an astonishment, among the nations! ²⁴ I laid a snare for thee, yea, and thou wast captured, O Babylon, when, thou, wast not aware,––Thou wast found out, yea and taken, For, with Yahweh, hadst thou contended. ²⁵ Yahweh opened, his armoury, and brought out his weapons of indignation,––For, a work, it is, pertaining to My Lord, Yahweh of hosts, in the land of the Chaldeans. ²⁶ Come ye against her from farthest parts, Throw open her granaries, Cast her up as heaps, and devote her to destruction,––Do not let her have, a remnant. ²⁷ Cut up all her bullocks, Let them go down to the slaughter,––Alas for them! For their day, hath come, Their time for punishment. ²⁸ The voice, Of them who are in flight, and, Of such as are escaping, out of the land of Babylon,––To tell in Zion, The avenging of Yahweh our God, The avenging of his temple. ²⁹ Publish against Babylon, ye chiefs of all who tread the bow––Encamp against her round about, Let there be none to escape, Recompense to her according to her work, According to all which she did, do ye to her,––For, Against Yahweh, hath she acted presumptuously, Against the Holy One of Israel. ³⁰ Therefore, shall her young men fall in her broadways,––And, all her men of war, be silenced in that day, Declareth Yahweh. ³¹ Behold me! against thee, most insolent one, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh of hosts; For thy day, hath come, Thy time for punishment; ³² So shall the most insolent one stumble, and fall, And he shall have none, to lift him up,––And I will kindle a fire in his cities, which shall devour all who are round about him.
³³ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts––Oppressed, were the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah, together,––And, all who took them captive, Held them fast, Refused to let them go:–– ³⁴ Their Redeemer, can hold fast, Yahweh of hosts, is his name, He will, thoroughly plead, their plea,––That he may quiet the earth, And disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon. ³⁵ A sword, is over the Chaldeans, Declareth Yahweh,––And against the inhabitants of Babylon, And against her princes, And against her wise men: ³⁶ A sword, is against the praters, And they shall be shewn to be foolish, A sword, is against her heroes, And they shall be dismayed: ³⁷ A sword, is against his horses and against his chariots, and against all the rabble that are in her midst, And they shall become women,––A sword, is against her treasures, And they shall be made a prey: ³⁸ A drought, is against her waters, And they shall be dried up,––For, a land of images, it is, And, with their shocking things, they act as men who are mad: ³⁹ Therefore, shall the criers, dwell with, the howlers, Yea ostriches, shall dwell therein,––So shall it be dwelt in no more for ever, Neither shall it be inhabited, unto generation after generation. ⁴⁰ Like the divine overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and her neighbours, Declareth Yahweh,––There shall not dwell there––a man, Nor sojourn therein––a son of the earth–born. ⁴¹ Lo! a people coming in from the North,––Yea, a great nation, and many kings, shall be roused up out of the remote parts of the earth: ⁴² Bow and javelin, shall they grasp, Cruel, are they, and will not have compassion, Their voice, like the sea, will roar, And, on horses, will they ride,––Set in array, as one man, for battle, Against thee, O daughter of Babylon! ⁴³ The king of Babylon hath heard, the report of them, And unnerved, are his hands,––Anguish, hath seized him, Writhing pain, as a woman in child–birth. ⁴⁴ Lo! as a lion, shall he come up from the majesty of the Jordan, Unto the pasture perennial, But I will wink––I will make them run away therefrom, Who, then shall be the Chosen One whom, against it, I may set in charge? For who, shall be like unto, me? And who, shall appoint, me, a, time? And who, is, the Shepherd that shall stand before, me? ⁴⁵ Therefore, hear ye, The counsel of Yahweh, which he hath counselled against Babylon, And his devices which he hath devised against the land of the Chaldeans,––Surely the little ones of the flock, shall drag them away, Surely he will cause the pasture to be astounded over them. ⁴⁶ At the noise of the taking of Babylon, the earth, trembled,––And, the outcry, among the nations, was heard.

⁶ Flee out of the midst of Babylon, And deliver ye every man his own life, Be not cut off in her punishment,––For it is Yahweh’s, time of avenging, A recompense, is he, repaying unto her. ⁷ A cup of gold, was Babylon, in the hand of Yahweh, Making drunk all the earth,––Of her wine, have the nations drunk, For this cause, have the nations been acting as men who are mad. ⁸ Suddenly, hath Babylon fallen, and been broken,––Howl ye over her, Fetch balsam for her pain, Peradventure, she shall be healed! ⁹ We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed, Leave her, and let us go every one to his own land,––For her judgment, reacheth unto the heavens, And mounteth as far as the skies. ¹⁰ Yahweh hath brought forth our righteousnesses,––Come and let us relate in Zion, the work of Yahweh our God. 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. ¹² Against the walls of Babylon, Lift ye up a standard, Strengthen ye the watch, Station the watchmen, Make ready the ambuscades,––For Yahweh hath both planned, and also performed, that which he had spoken against the inhabitants of Babylon. ¹³ O thou who dwellest upon many waters, Who aboundest in treasures,––Come, hath thine end! The measure of thine unrighteous gain! ¹⁴ Yahweh of hosts, hath sworn, by his own soul: Surely I have filled thee with men, as with locusts, And they have answered against thee, with a shout. ¹⁵ He that, Made the earth in his might, Established the world in his wisdom,––And, in his understanding, stretched out the heavens, ¹⁶ By the voice that he uttered, there was a tumult of waters in the heavens, And he caused vapours to ascend from the end of the earth,––Lightnings for the rain, made he, And brought forth wind out of his treasures. ¹⁷ Every son of earth had become too brutish to know,––Every goldsmith, hath been put to shame, by a graven image,––For, a falsehood, is his molten image, Seeing there is no breath in them: ¹⁸ Vanity, they are, A handiwork of mockeries,––In the time of their visitation, shall they perish. ¹⁹ Not like these, is the portion of Jacob, For, the fashioner of all things, is he! And the portion of his inheritance,––Yahweh of hosts, is his name. 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:

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:

³ and thou shalt say, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh,––Behold me! against thee, O Gog, Prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal; ⁴ Therefore I will turn thee about, and will put hooks in thy jaws,––and bring thee forth, and all thine army, Horses and horsemen, Clothed, with gorgeous attire, all of them, A mighty gathered host, With shield and buckler, handling swords, all of them: ⁵ Persia, Ethiopia and Libya, with them, All of them, with shield and helmet; ⁶ Gomer, and all her hordes, The house of Togarmah, the remote men of the North, and all his hordes, Many peoples with thee. ⁷ Be ready, and show thyself ready, Thou and all thy gathered host, who have gathered themselves unto thee,––And become thou for me, a guard. ⁸ After many days, shalt thou muster thy forces, In the afterpart of the years, shalt thou enter, Into the land of the remnant brought back from the sword, Gathered from among many peoples, Upon the mountains of Israel, which have been waste continually,––But, the same, from among the peoples, hath been brought forth. And they shall dwell in security, all of them. ⁹ Then shalt thou come up, Like a storm, shalt thou enter, Like a cloud covering the land, shalt thou be,––Thou, and all thy hordes, and many peoples with thee. ¹⁰ Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh,––So shall it be in that day, that thoughts will come up on thy heart,––And thou wilt devise a wicked device; ¹¹ and wilt say––I will go up over a land of hamlets, I will enter among them who are at rest, dwelling securely,––All of them, dwelling without, a wall, Who, bars and doors, have none; ¹² To capture spoil, And take prey,––To bring back thy hand over desolate places at length inhabited, And against a people gathered from among the nations, Getting herds and substance, Dwelling upon the navel of the earth. ¹³ Sheba, and, Dedan, and, the traders of Tarshish and all her young lions, will say to thee, To capture spoil, art thou, coming? And, to take prey, hast thou called together thy gathered host? To carry off silver and gold, To take away herds and substance, To capture great spoil?
¹⁴ Therefore, prophesy, Son of man, and thou shalt say to Gog, Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh: Shall it not be, in that day, because my people Israel are dwelling securely, that thou wilt rouse thyself? ¹⁵ Therefore wilt thou come out of thy place, Out of the remote parts of the North, Thou, and many peoples with thee,––Riding on horses, all of them, A mighty gathered host, Yea a great army; ¹⁶ Therefore wilt thou come up, against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land,––In the afterpart of the days, shall it be, that I will suffer thee to enter upon my land, To the end the nations, may know me, when I hallow myself in thee before their eyes, O Gog! ¹⁷ Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh, Art, thou, he, of whom I spake in days aforetime, by the hand of my servants the prophets of Israel, who kept on prophesying in those days, for years,––That thou shouldest be suffered to come against them? ¹⁸ So then shall it come to pass in that day, In the day when Gog entereth, upon the soil of Israel, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, That mine indignation, shall come up, into my nostrils; ¹⁹ Yea, in my jealousy, in the fire of mine outburst, have I spoken,––Surely, in that day, shall there be a great trembling upon the soil of Israel: ²⁰ Then shall tremble before me, The fishes of the sea, and, The bird of the heavens, and, The wild beast of the field, and, Every creeping thing that creepeth on the ground, and, All the men, who are on the face of the ground,––and, The mountains, shall be torn asunder, and, The steep places, shall sink down, and, Every wall, to the earth, shall be thrown. ²¹ Then will I call against him, every terror, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh, the sword of every man, against his brother, shall be; ²² Then will I contend with him, by pestilence and by blood,––And, an overflowing downpour and hailstones, fire and brimstone, will I rain, Upon him, and, Upon his hordes, and, Upon the many peoples, who are with him. ²³ So will I, Magnify myself, and, Hallow myself, and, Make myself known, Before the eyes of many nations,––And they shall know, that, I, am Yahweh.

¹ Blow ye a horn in Zion, sound an alarm in my holy mountain, let all the inhabitants of the land, tremble,––for coming is the day of Yahweh, for it is near!–– ² A day of obscurity and deep gloom, a day of cloud, and thick darkness, as dusk, spread over the mountains,––a people, many and bold, like whom, hath not been from age–past times, and, after whom, shall not be again unto the years of generation after generation. ³ Before him, hath a fire, devoured, and, after him, shall a flame, consume,––As the garden of Eden, is the land before him, but, after him, a desert most desolate, Moreover also, escape, giveth he none. ⁴ As the appearance of horses, is his appearance, and, as war–horses, so, shall they run: ⁵ Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains, shall they rattle along, like the noise of a flame of fire, devouring dry straw,––like a people bold, arrayed for battle. ⁶ Because of him, shall peoples’, be in anguish,––all faces, have withdrawn their colour. ⁷ Like heroes, shall they run, like men of war, shall they mount a wall,––and, every one––along his own road, shall they march along, and shall not change their paths; ⁸ Nor, against each other, shall they strike, Each––on his own highway, shall they march,––though, in among the weapons, they fall, they shall not stop. ⁹ Upon the city, shall they leap, on the wall, shall they run, up the houses, shall they climb,––through the windows, shall they enter, like a thief, ¹⁰ Before him, hath quaked the earth, have trembled the heavens,––the sun and the moon, have become dark, and, the stars, have withdrawn their shining; ¹¹ And, Yahweh, hath uttered his voice, before his host, for great indeed is his camp, for bold is he who executeth his word,––for great is the day of Yahweh, and awful exceedingly, Who then shall endure it?

²⁵ Then will I make good to you the years which were eaten by the swarming locust, the grass locust, and the corn locust and the creeping locust,––even my great army, which I sent among you.

¹⁴ Multitudes, multitudes, in the vale of strict decision,––for near is the day of Yahweh, in the vale of strict decision.

¹ Lo! a day, cometh, pertaining to Yahweh,––when apportioned shall be thy spoil in thy midst; ² Yea I will gather together all the nations unto Jerusalem, to battle, and the city, shall be captured, and the houses, plundered, and, the women, ravished,––and half of the city, shall go forth, into exile, but, the remainder of the people, shall not be cut off out of the city. ³ Then will Yahweh go forth, and fight against those nations,––just as he did in the day when he fought, in the day of battle;

¹³ And it shall come to pass, in that day, that there shall be a great confusion from Yahweh among them,––and they will lay hold every one upon the hand of his neighbour, and his hand, will rise up, against the hand of his neighbour; ¹⁴ Moreover also, Judah, will fight with Jerusalem,––and the wealth of all the nations round about, shall be gathered together, gold and silver and apparel, in great abundance.

⁷ And, the likenesses of the locusts, were like unto horses prepared for battle; and, upon their heads, as it were crowns, like unto gold, and, their faces, were as the faces of men, ⁸ and, they had hair, as the hair of women, and, their teeth, were, as of lions, ⁹ and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and, the sound of their wings, was as the sound of chariots of many horses, running into battle; ¹⁰ and they have tails like unto scorpions, and stings, and, in their tails, is their licence to injure men five months. ¹¹ They have over them, as king, the messenger of the abyss, whose name, in Hebrew, is Abaddon["=Destroyer"], and, in the Greek, he hath for name, Destroyer. ¹² The first, Woe, hath passed away, lo! there come, yet, two, Woes, after these things.
¹³ And, the sixth messenger, sounded; and I heard one voice, from among the horns of the altar of gold which is before God, ¹⁴ saying unto the sixth messenger, who was holding the trumpet––Loose the four messengers, who are bound at the great river Euphrates. ¹⁵ And the four messengers were loosed, who had been prepared for the hour, and day, and month, and year, that they should slay the third of men. ¹⁶ And, the number of the armies of the horsemen, was twice ten thousand times ten thousand––I heard the number of them. ¹⁷ And, thus, saw I the horses in the vision,––and them who were sitting upon them, having breastplates as of fire and hyacinth and brimstone; ––and, the heads of the horses, were as heads of lions, and, out of their mouths, come forth fire and smoke and brimstone: ¹⁸ by these three plagues, were slain, the third part of mankind, by reason of the fire and the smoke and the brimstone, that proceedeth out of their mouths; ¹⁹ for, the licence of the horses, is, in their mouth, and in their tails, for, their tails, are like unto serpents, having heads, and, with them, they injure.

⁸ Therefore, in one day, shall have come her plagues,––death and grief and famine; and, with fire, shall she be burned up; ––because, mighty, is the [Lord] God who hath judged her.

¹¹ And I saw heaven, set open, and lo! a white horse, and, he that was sitting thereon, [called] Faithful, and True; and, in righteousness, doth he judge and make war; ¹² and, his eyes, are a flame of fire, and, upon his head, are many diadems, having, a name, written, which, no one, knoweth, but himself, ¹³ and arrayed with a mantle sprinkled with blood, and his name hath been called––The Word of God. ¹⁴ And, the armies which were in heaven, were following him, upon white horses, clothed with fine linen, white, pure; ¹⁵ and, out of his mouth, is going forth a sharp sword, that, therewith, he may smite the nations,––and, he, shall shepherd them with a sceptre of iron, and, he, treadeth the wine–press of the wrath of the anger of God the Almighty. ¹⁶ And he hath, upon his mantle and upon his thigh, a name, written––King of kings, and Lord of lords. ¹⁷ And I saw one messenger, standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud voice, saying, unto all the birds that fly in mid–heaven,––Hither! be gathered together unto the great supper of God,–– ¹⁸ that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them who sit upon them, and the flesh of all, both free and bond, and small and great. ¹⁹ And I saw the wild–beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together––to make war with him who was sitting upon the horse, and with his army. ²⁰ And the wild–beast, was taken, and, with him, the false prophet who wrought the signs before him, whereby he deceived them who received the mark of the wild–beast and them who were doing homage unto his image,––alive, were they two cast into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone. ²¹ And, the rest, were slain with the sword of him that was sitting upon the horse, which went forth out of his mouth, and, all the birds, were filled with their flesh.