逐节对照
- New Living Translation - O Babylon, you will be destroyed. Happy is the one who pays you back for what you have done to us.
- 新标点和合本 - 将要被灭的巴比伦城啊（城：原文是女子）， 报复你像你待我们的，那人便为有福！
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 将要被灭的巴比伦 哪， 用你待我们的恶行报复你的，那人有福了。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 将要被灭的巴比伦 哪， 用你待我们的恶行报复你的，那人有福了。
- 当代译本 - 巴比伦城啊， 你快要灭亡了， 那向你以牙还牙为我们复仇的人有福了！
- 圣经新译本 - 将要被毁灭的（“将要被毁灭的”有古译本作“毁灭者”）巴比伦城（“城”原文作“女子”）啊！ 照着你待我们的行为报复你的， 那人有福了。
- 中文标准译本 - 将被毁灭的巴比伦城 啊， 照着你向我们所做的去报应你的， 那人是蒙福的！
- 现代标点和合本 - 将要被灭的巴比伦城 啊， 报复你像你待我们的，那人便为有福！
- 和合本（拼音版） - 将要被灭的巴比伦城啊 ， 报复你像你待我们的，那人便为有福。
- New International Version - Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who repays you according to what you have done to us.
- New International Reader's Version - People of Babylon, you are sentenced to be destroyed. Happy is the person who pays you back according to what you have done to us.
- English Standard Version - O daughter of Babylon, doomed to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who repays you with what you have done to us!
- Christian Standard Bible - Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction, happy is the one who pays you back what you have done to us.
- New American Standard Bible - Daughter of Babylon, you devastated one, Blessed will be one who repays you With the retribution with which you have repaid us.
- New King James Version - O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed, Happy the one who repays you as you have served us!
- Amplified Bible - O daughter of Babylon, you devastator, How blessed will be the one Who repays you [with destruction] as you have repaid us.
- American Standard Version - O daughter of Babylon, that art to be destroyed, Happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee As thou hast served us.
- King James Version - O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
- New English Translation - O daughter Babylon, soon to be devastated! How blessed will be the one who repays you for what you dished out to us!
- World English Bible - Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who repays you, as you have done to us.
- 新標點和合本 - 將要被滅的巴比倫城啊（城：原文是女子）， 報復你像你待我們的，那人便為有福！
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 將要被滅的巴比倫 哪， 用你待我們的惡行報復你的，那人有福了。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 將要被滅的巴比倫 哪， 用你待我們的惡行報復你的，那人有福了。
- 當代譯本 - 巴比倫城啊， 你快要滅亡了， 那向你以牙還牙為我們復仇的人有福了！
- 聖經新譯本 - 將要被毀滅的（“將要被毀滅的”有古譯本作“毀滅者”）巴比倫城（“城”原文作“女子”）啊！ 照著你待我們的行為報復你的， 那人有福了。
- 呂振中譯本 - 毁滅者 巴比倫 國 啊， 照你所待我們的去報復你的、 那人有福啊！
- 中文標準譯本 - 將被毀滅的巴比倫城 啊， 照著你向我們所做的去報應你的， 那人是蒙福的！
- 現代標點和合本 - 將要被滅的巴比倫城 啊， 報復你像你待我們的，那人便為有福！
- 文理和合譯本 - 將亡之巴比倫女歟、以爾之待我者待爾、斯人其有福兮、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 巴比倫之邑民兮、昔爾害予、擲嬰孩於石、今有人待爾若此者、必得純嘏兮。
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 必滅亡之 巴比倫 邑 邑原文作女 乎、有人報復爾、如爾之待我儕、願其得福、
- 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 巴比倫 人恣刼奪。可憐稚子亦遭殃。
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Hija de Babilonia, que has de ser destruida, ¡dichoso el que te haga pagar por todo lo que nos has hecho!
- 현대인의 성경 - 바빌론아, 너는 멸망할 것이다. 네가 우리에게 행한 대로 갚아 주는 자가 복이 있으리라.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Господь завершит то, что задумал для меня. Господи, Твоя милость на веки: не оставляй творения Твоих рук!
- Восточный перевод - Вечный свершит то, что задумал для меня. Твоя милость, Вечный, навеки: не оставляй творения Твоих рук!
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Вечный свершит то, что задумал для меня. Твоя милость, Вечный, навеки: не оставляй творения Твоих рук!
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Вечный свершит то, что задумал для меня. Твоя милость, Вечный, навеки: не оставляй творения Твоих рук!
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - O Dame Babylone, ╵tu seras dévastée ! Heureux qui te rendra tout le mal que tu nous as fait !
- リビングバイブル - どう猛な野獣バビロンよ。おまえは滅ぼされる。 おまえを滅ぼす人に、祝福があるように。 おまえは私たちを滅ぼしたからだ。
- Nova Versão Internacional - Ó cidade de Babilônia, destinada à destruição, feliz aquele que lhe retribuir o mal que você nos fez!
- Hoffnung für alle - Babylon, auch dich wird man niederreißen und verwüsten! Glücklich ist, wer dir heimzahlt, was du uns angetan hast!
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Hỡi con gái Ba-by-lôn, các ngươi đã bị định cho diệt vong. Phước cho người báo phạt Ba-by-lôn, vì những gì các ngươi đã làm cho chúng ta.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - โอ ธิดาแห่งบาบิโลน เจ้าจะพินาศย่อยยับ ความสุขมีแก่ผู้ที่คืนสนองเจ้า อย่างสาสมกับที่เจ้าได้ทำกับเรา
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ธิดาแห่งบาบิโลนเอ๋ย เจ้าถูกกำหนดให้ถึงซึ่งความพินาศ ผู้เป็นสุขคือผู้สนองตอบเจ้า อย่างที่เจ้าได้กระทำต่อพวกเรา
交叉引用
- Revelation 17:1 - One of the seven angels who had poured out the seven bowls came over and spoke to me. “Come with me,” he said, “and I will show you the judgment that is going to come on the great prostitute, who rules over many waters.
- Revelation 17:2 - The kings of the world have committed adultery with her, and the people who belong to this world have been made drunk by the wine of her immorality.”
- Revelation 17:3 - So the angel took me in the Spirit into the wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that had seven heads and ten horns, and blasphemies against God were written all over it.
- Revelation 17:4 - The woman wore purple and scarlet clothing and beautiful jewelry made of gold and precious gems and pearls. In her hand she held a gold goblet full of obscenities and the impurities of her immorality.
- Revelation 17:5 - A mysterious name was written on her forehead: “Babylon the Great, Mother of All Prostitutes and Obscenities in the World.”
- Revelation 17:6 - I could see that she was drunk—drunk with the blood of God’s holy people who were witnesses for Jesus. I stared at her in complete amazement.
- Revelation 17:7 - “Why are you so amazed?” the angel asked. “I will tell you the mystery of this woman and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns on which she sits.
- Revelation 17:8 - The beast you saw was once alive but isn’t now. And yet he will soon come up out of the bottomless pit and go to eternal destruction. And the people who belong to this world, whose names were not written in the Book of Life before the world was made, will be amazed at the reappearance of this beast who had died.
- Revelation 17:9 - “This calls for a mind with understanding: The seven heads of the beast represent the seven hills where the woman rules. They also represent seven kings.
- Revelation 17:10 - Five kings have already fallen, the sixth now reigns, and the seventh is yet to come, but his reign will be brief.
- Revelation 17:11 - “The scarlet beast that was, but is no longer, is the eighth king. He is like the other seven, and he, too, is headed for destruction.
- Revelation 17:12 - The ten horns of the beast are ten kings who have not yet risen to power. They will be appointed to their kingdoms for one brief moment to reign with the beast.
- Revelation 17:13 - They will all agree to give him their power and authority.
- Revelation 17:14 - Together they will go to war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will defeat them because he is Lord of all lords and King of all kings. And his called and chosen and faithful ones will be with him.”
- Revelation 17:15 - Then the angel said to me, “The waters where the prostitute is ruling represent masses of people of every nation and language.
- Revelation 17:16 - The scarlet beast and his ten horns all hate the prostitute. They will strip her naked, eat her flesh, and burn her remains with fire.
- Revelation 17:17 - For God has put a plan into their minds, a plan that will carry out his purposes. They will agree to give their authority to the scarlet beast, and so the words of God will be fulfilled.
- Revelation 17:18 - And this woman you saw in your vision represents the great city that rules over the kings of the world.”
- Isaiah 47:1 - “Come down, virgin daughter of Babylon, and sit in the dust. For your days of sitting on a throne have ended. O daughter of Babylonia, never again will you be the lovely princess, tender and delicate.
- Isaiah 47:2 - Take heavy millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, and strip off your robe. Expose yourself to public view.
- Isaiah 47:3 - You will be naked and burdened with shame. I will take vengeance against you without pity.”
- Isaiah 47:4 - Our Redeemer, whose name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, is the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 47:5 - “O beautiful Babylon, sit now in darkness and silence. Never again will you be known as the queen of kingdoms.
- Isaiah 47:6 - For I was angry with my chosen people and punished them by letting them fall into your hands. But you, Babylon, showed them no mercy. You oppressed even the elderly.
- Isaiah 47:7 - You said, ‘I will reign forever as queen of the world!’ You did not reflect on your actions or think about their consequences.
- Isaiah 47:8 - “Listen to this, you pleasure-loving kingdom, living at ease and feeling secure. You say, ‘I am the only one, and there is no other. I will never be a widow or lose my children.’
- Isaiah 47:9 - Well, both these things will come upon you in a moment: widowhood and the loss of your children. Yes, these calamities will come upon you, despite all your witchcraft and magic.
- Isaiah 47:10 - “You felt secure in your wickedness. ‘No one sees me,’ you said. But your ‘wisdom’ and ‘knowledge’ have led you astray, and you said, ‘I am the only one, and there is no other.’
- Isaiah 47:11 - So disaster will overtake you, and you won’t be able to charm it away. Calamity will fall upon you, and you won’t be able to buy your way out. A catastrophe will strike you suddenly, one for which you are not prepared.
- Isaiah 47:12 - “Now use your magical charms! Use the spells you have worked at all these years! Maybe they will do you some good. Maybe they can make someone afraid of you.
- Isaiah 47:13 - All the advice you receive has made you tired. Where are all your astrologers, those stargazers who make predictions each month? Let them stand up and save you from what the future holds.
- Isaiah 47:14 - But they are like straw burning in a fire; they cannot save themselves from the flame. You will get no help from them at all; their hearth is no place to sit for warmth.
- Isaiah 47:15 - And all your friends, those with whom you’ve done business since childhood, will go their own ways, turning a deaf ear to your cries.
- Isaiah 44:28 - When I say of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd,’ he will certainly do as I say. He will command, ‘Rebuild Jerusalem’; he will say, ‘Restore the Temple.’”
- Revelation 14:8 - Then another angel followed him through the sky, shouting, “Babylon is fallen—that great city is fallen—because she made all the nations of the world drink the wine of her passionate immorality.”
- Revelation 14:9 - Then a third angel followed them, shouting, “Anyone who worships the beast and his statue or who accepts his mark on the forehead or on the hand
- Revelation 14:10 - must drink the wine of God’s anger. It has been poured full strength into God’s cup of wrath. And they will be tormented with fire and burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and the Lamb.
- Revelation 14:11 - The smoke of their torment will rise forever and ever, and they will have no relief day or night, for they have worshiped the beast and his statue and have accepted the mark of his name.”
- Jeremiah 25:12 - “Then, after the seventy years of captivity are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his people for their sins,” says the Lord. “I will make the country of the Babylonians a wasteland forever.
- Jeremiah 25:13 - I will bring upon them all the terrors I have promised in this book—all the penalties announced by Jeremiah against the nations.
- Jeremiah 25:14 - Many nations and great kings will enslave the Babylonians, just as they enslaved my people. I will punish them in proportion to the suffering they cause my people.”
- Zechariah 2:7 - Come away, people of Zion, you who are exiled in Babylon!”
- Jeremiah 50:1 - The Lord gave Jeremiah the prophet this message concerning Babylon and the land of the Babylonians.
- Jeremiah 50:2 - This is what the Lord says: “Tell the whole world, and keep nothing back. Raise a signal flag to tell everyone that Babylon will fall! Her images and idols will be shattered. Her gods Bel and Marduk will be utterly disgraced.
- Jeremiah 50:3 - For a nation will attack her from the north and bring such destruction that no one will live there again. Everything will be gone; both people and animals will flee.
- Jeremiah 50:4 - “In those coming days,” says the Lord, “the people of Israel will return home together with the people of Judah. They will come weeping and seeking the Lord their God.
- Jeremiah 50:5 - They will ask the way to Jerusalem and will start back home again. They will bind themselves to the Lord with an eternal covenant that will never be forgotten.
- Jeremiah 50:6 - “My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray and turned them loose in the mountains. They have lost their way and can’t remember how to get back to the sheepfold.
- Jeremiah 50:7 - All who found them devoured them. Their enemies said, ‘We did nothing wrong in attacking them, for they sinned against the Lord, their true place of rest, and the hope of their ancestors.’
- Jeremiah 50:8 - “But now, flee from Babylon! Leave the land of the Babylonians. Like male goats at the head of the flock, lead my people home again.
- Jeremiah 50:9 - For I am raising up an army of great nations from the north. They will join forces to attack Babylon, and she will be captured. The enemies’ arrows will go straight to the mark; they will not miss!
- Jeremiah 50:10 - Babylonia will be looted until the attackers are glutted with loot. I, the Lord, have spoken!
- Jeremiah 50:11 - “You rejoice and are glad, you who plundered my chosen people. You frisk about like a calf in a meadow and neigh like a stallion.
- Jeremiah 50:12 - But your homeland will be overwhelmed with shame and disgrace. You will become the least of nations— a wilderness, a dry and desolate land.
- Jeremiah 50:13 - Because of the Lord’s anger, Babylon will become a deserted wasteland. All who pass by will be horrified and will gasp at the destruction they see there.
- Jeremiah 50:14 - “Yes, prepare to attack Babylon, all you surrounding nations. Let your archers shoot at her; spare no arrows. For she has sinned against the Lord.
- Jeremiah 50:15 - Shout war cries against her from every side. Look! She surrenders! Her walls have fallen. It is the Lord’s vengeance, so take vengeance on her. Do to her as she has done to others!
- Jeremiah 50:16 - Take from Babylon all those who plant crops; send all the harvesters away. Because of the sword of the enemy, everyone will run away and rush back to their own lands.
- Jeremiah 50:17 - “The Israelites are like sheep that have been scattered by lions. First the king of Assyria ate them up. Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon cracked their bones.”
- Jeremiah 50:18 - Therefore, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Now I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, just as I punished the king of Assyria.
- Jeremiah 50:19 - And I will bring Israel home again to its own land, to feed in the fields of Carmel and Bashan, and to be satisfied once more in the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead.
- Jeremiah 50:20 - In those days,” says the Lord, “no sin will be found in Israel or in Judah, for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
- Jeremiah 50:21 - “Go up, my warriors, against the land of Merathaim and against the people of Pekod. Pursue, kill, and completely destroy them, as I have commanded you,” says the Lord.
- Jeremiah 50:22 - “Let the battle cry be heard in the land, a shout of great destruction.
- Jeremiah 50:23 - Babylon, the mightiest hammer in all the earth, lies broken and shattered. Babylon is desolate among the nations!
- Jeremiah 50:24 - Listen, Babylon, for I have set a trap for you. You are caught, for you have fought against the Lord.
- Jeremiah 50:25 - The Lord has opened his armory and brought out weapons to vent his fury. The terror that falls upon the Babylonians will be the work of the Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
- Jeremiah 50:26 - Yes, come against her from distant lands. Break open her granaries. Crush her walls and houses into heaps of rubble. Destroy her completely, and leave nothing!
- Jeremiah 50:27 - Destroy even her young bulls— it will be terrible for them, too! Slaughter them all! For Babylon’s day of reckoning has come.
- Jeremiah 50:28 - Listen to the people who have escaped from Babylon, as they tell in Jerusalem how the Lord our God has taken vengeance against those who destroyed his Temple.
- Jeremiah 50:29 - “Send out a call for archers to come to Babylon. Surround the city so none can escape. Do to her as she has done to others, for she has defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.
- Jeremiah 50:30 - Her young men will fall in the streets and die. Her soldiers will all be killed,” says the Lord.
- Jeremiah 50:31 - “See, I am your enemy, you arrogant people,” says the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “Your day of reckoning has arrived— the day when I will punish you.
- Jeremiah 50:32 - O land of arrogance, you will stumble and fall, and no one will raise you up. For I will light a fire in the cities of Babylon that will burn up everything around them.”
- Jeremiah 50:33 - This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: “The people of Israel and Judah have been wronged. Their captors hold them and refuse to let them go.
- Jeremiah 50:34 - But the one who redeems them is strong. His name is the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. He will defend them and give them rest again in Israel. But for the people of Babylon there will be no rest!
- Jeremiah 50:35 - “The sword of destruction will strike the Babylonians,” says the Lord. “It will strike the people of Babylon— her officials and wise men, too.
- Jeremiah 50:36 - The sword will strike her wise counselors, and they will become fools. The sword will strike her mightiest warriors, and panic will seize them.
- Jeremiah 50:37 - The sword will strike her horses and chariots and her allies from other lands, and they will all become like women. The sword will strike her treasures, and they all will be plundered.
- Jeremiah 50:38 - A drought will strike her water supply, causing it to dry up. And why? Because the whole land is filled with idols, and the people are madly in love with them.
- Jeremiah 50:39 - “Soon Babylon will be inhabited by desert animals and hyenas. It will be a home for owls. Never again will people live there; it will lie desolate forever.
- Jeremiah 50:40 - I will destroy it as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns,” says the Lord. “No one will live there; no one will inhabit it.
- Jeremiah 50:41 - “Look! A great army is coming from the north. A great nation and many kings are rising against you from far-off lands.
- Jeremiah 50:42 - They are armed with bows and spears. They are cruel and show no mercy. As they ride forward on horses, they sound like a roaring sea. They are coming in battle formation, planning to destroy you, Babylon.
- Jeremiah 50:43 - The king of Babylon has heard reports about the enemy, and he is weak with fright. Pangs of anguish have gripped him, like those of a woman in labor.
- Jeremiah 50:44 - “I will come like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan, leaping on the sheep in the pasture. I will chase Babylon from its land, and I will appoint the leader of my choice. For who is like me, and who can challenge me? What ruler can oppose my will?”
- Jeremiah 50:45 - Listen to the Lord’s plans against Babylon and the land of the Babylonians. Even the little children will be dragged off like sheep, and their homes will be destroyed.
- Jeremiah 50:46 - The earth will shake with the shout, “Babylon has been taken!” and its cry of despair will be heard around the world.
- Revelation 18:20 - Rejoice over her fate, O heaven and people of God and apostles and prophets! For at last God has judged her for your sakes.
- Isaiah 21:1 - This message came to me concerning Babylon—the desert by the sea : Disaster is roaring down on you from the desert, like a whirlwind sweeping in from the Negev.
- Isaiah 14:4 - you will taunt the king of Babylon. You will say, “The mighty man has been destroyed. Yes, your insolence is ended.
- Isaiah 14:5 - For the Lord has crushed your wicked power and broken your evil rule.
- Isaiah 14:6 - You struck the people with endless blows of rage and held the nations in your angry grip with unrelenting tyranny.
- Isaiah 14:7 - But finally the earth is at rest and quiet. Now it can sing again!
- Isaiah 14:8 - Even the trees of the forest— the cypress trees and the cedars of Lebanon— sing out this joyous song: ‘Since you have been cut down, no one will come now to cut us down!’
- Isaiah 14:9 - “In the place of the dead there is excitement over your arrival. The spirits of world leaders and mighty kings long dead stand up to see you.
- Isaiah 14:10 - With one voice they all cry out, ‘Now you are as weak as we are!
- Isaiah 14:11 - Your might and power were buried with you. The sound of the harp in your palace has ceased. Now maggots are your sheet, and worms your blanket.’
- Isaiah 14:12 - “How you are fallen from heaven, O shining star, son of the morning! You have been thrown down to the earth, you who destroyed the nations of the world.
- Isaiah 14:13 - For you said to yourself, ‘I will ascend to heaven and set my throne above God’s stars. I will preside on the mountain of the gods far away in the north.
- Isaiah 14:14 - I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High.’
- Isaiah 14:15 - Instead, you will be brought down to the place of the dead, down to its lowest depths.
- Isaiah 14:16 - Everyone there will stare at you and ask, ‘Can this be the one who shook the earth and made the kingdoms of the world tremble?
- Isaiah 14:17 - Is this the one who destroyed the world and made it into a wasteland? Is this the king who demolished the world’s greatest cities and had no mercy on his prisoners?’
- Isaiah 14:18 - “The kings of the nations lie in stately glory, each in his own tomb,
- Isaiah 14:19 - but you will be thrown out of your grave like a worthless branch. Like a corpse trampled underfoot, you will be dumped into a mass grave with those killed in battle. You will descend to the pit.
- Isaiah 14:20 - You will not be given a proper burial, for you have destroyed your nation and slaughtered your people. The descendants of such an evil person will never again receive honor.
- Isaiah 14:21 - Kill this man’s children! Let them die because of their father’s sins! They must not rise and conquer the earth, filling the world with their cities.”
- Isaiah 14:22 - This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: “I, myself, have risen against Babylon! I will destroy its children and its children’s children,” says the Lord.
- Isaiah 14:23 - “I will make Babylon a desolate place of owls, filled with swamps and marshes. I will sweep the land with the broom of destruction. I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!”
- Isaiah 14:24 - The Lord of Heaven’s Armies has sworn this oath: “It will all happen as I have planned. It will be as I have decided.
- Psalms 149:6 - Let the praises of God be in their mouths, and a sharp sword in their hands—
- Psalms 149:7 - to execute vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,
- Psalms 149:8 - to bind their kings with shackles and their leaders with iron chains,
- Psalms 149:9 - to execute the judgment written against them. This is the glorious privilege of his faithful ones. Praise the Lord!
- Isaiah 13:1 - Isaiah son of Amoz received this message concerning the destruction of Babylon:
- Isaiah 13:2 - “Raise a signal flag on a bare hilltop. Call up an army against Babylon. Wave your hand to encourage them as they march into the palaces of the high and mighty.
- Isaiah 13:3 - I, the Lord, have dedicated these soldiers for this task. Yes, I have called mighty warriors to express my anger, and they will rejoice when I am exalted.”
- Isaiah 13:4 - Hear the noise on the mountains! Listen, as the vast armies march! It is the noise and shouting of many nations. The Lord of Heaven’s Armies has called this army together.
- Isaiah 13:5 - They come from distant countries, from beyond the farthest horizons. They are the Lord’s weapons to carry out his anger. With them he will destroy the whole land.
- Isaiah 13:6 - Scream in terror, for the day of the Lord has arrived— the time for the Almighty to destroy.
- Isaiah 13:7 - Every arm is paralyzed with fear. Every heart melts,
- Isaiah 13:8 - and people are terrified. Pangs of anguish grip them, like those of a woman in labor. They look helplessly at one another, their faces aflame with fear.
- Isaiah 13:9 - For see, the day of the Lord is coming— the terrible day of his fury and fierce anger. The land will be made desolate, and all the sinners destroyed with it.
- Isaiah 13:10 - The heavens will be black above them; the stars will give no light. The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will provide no light.
- Isaiah 13:11 - “I, the Lord, will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their sin. I will crush the arrogance of the proud and humble the pride of the mighty.
- Isaiah 13:12 - I will make people scarcer than gold— more rare than the fine gold of Ophir.
- Isaiah 13:13 - For I will shake the heavens. The earth will move from its place when the Lord of Heaven’s Armies displays his wrath in the day of his fierce anger.”
- Isaiah 13:14 - Everyone in Babylon will run about like a hunted gazelle, like sheep without a shepherd. They will try to find their own people and flee to their own land.
- Isaiah 13:15 - Anyone who is captured will be cut down— run through with a sword.
- Isaiah 13:16 - Their little children will be dashed to death before their eyes. Their homes will be sacked, and their wives will be raped.
- Isaiah 13:17 - “Look, I will stir up the Medes against Babylon. They cannot be tempted by silver or bribed with gold.
- Isaiah 13:18 - The attacking armies will shoot down the young men with arrows. They will have no mercy on helpless babies and will show no compassion for children.”
- Isaiah 13:19 - Babylon, the most glorious of kingdoms, the flower of Chaldean pride, will be devastated like Sodom and Gomorrah when God destroyed them.
- Isaiah 13:20 - Babylon will never be inhabited again. It will remain empty for generation after generation. Nomads will refuse to camp there, and shepherds will not bed down their sheep.
- Isaiah 13:21 - Desert animals will move into the ruined city, and the houses will be haunted by howling creatures. Owls will live among the ruins, and wild goats will go there to dance.
- Isaiah 13:22 - Hyenas will howl in its fortresses, and jackals will make dens in its luxurious palaces. Babylon’s days are numbered; its time of destruction will soon arrive.
- Revelation 18:6 - Do to her as she has done to others. Double her penalty for all her evil deeds. She brewed a cup of terror for others, so brew twice as much for her.