Trusting God in the Trials

The Lord Speaks to Samuel

Greatest Journey!

The Bible, Simplified

Whiskers & Prayers: Devotionals for Cat Lovers

5 Prayers for Your Son’s School Year

Christ Over Everything - Colossians

If Jesus Came to My School: A 5-Day Kids Reading Plan

Thrive Together: 3 Days of Community

Living a Life That Matters

The Listener’s Bible®: NIV Edition

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Holy Bible, New International Version™ (Anglicised), South Asian Audio Edition

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         <div class="label">13</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Babylon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.13.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.13.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.13.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Raise a banner on a bare hilltop,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.13.2"><span class="content">shout to them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.13.2"><span class="content">beckon to them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.13.2"><span class="content">to enter the gates of the nobles.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.13.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.13.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I have commanded those I prepared for battle;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.13.3"><span class="content">I have summoned my warriors to carry out my wrath&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.13.3"><span class="content">those who rejoice in my triumph.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.13.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.13.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Listen, a noise on the mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.13.4"><span class="content">like that of a great multitude!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.13.4"><span class="content">Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.13.4"><span class="content">like nations massing together!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.13.4"><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is mustering</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.13.4"><span class="content">an army for war.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.13.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.13.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They come from faraway lands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.13.5"><span class="content">from the ends of the heavens&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.13.5"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and the weapons of his wrath&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.13.5"><span class="content">to destroy the whole country.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.13.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.13.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Wail, for the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is near;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.13.6"><span class="content">it will come like destruction from the Almighty.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:6 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.13.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.13.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Because of this, all hands will go limp,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.13.7"><span class="content">every heart will melt with fear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.13.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.13.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Terror will seize them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.13.8"><span class="content">pain and anguish will grip them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.13.8"><span class="content">they will writhe like a woman in labor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.13.8"><span class="content">They will look aghast at each other,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.13.8"><span class="content">their faces aflame.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.13.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.13.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">See, the day of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is coming</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.13.9"><span class="content">&#8212;a cruel day, with wrath and fierce anger&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.13.9"><span class="content">to make the land desolate</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.13.9"><span class="content">and destroy the sinners within it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.13.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.13.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The stars of heaven and their constellations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.13.10"><span class="content">will not show their light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.13.10"><span class="content">The rising sun will be darkened</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.13.10"><span class="content">and the moon will not give its light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.13.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.13.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">I will punish the world for its evil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.13.11"><span class="content">the wicked for their sins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.13.11"><span class="content">I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.13.11"><span class="content">and will humble the pride of the ruthless.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.13.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.13.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will make people scarcer than pure gold,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.13.12"><span class="content">more rare than the gold of Ophir.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.13.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.13.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Therefore I will make the heavens tremble;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.13.13"><span class="content">and the earth will shake from its place</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.13.13"><span class="content">at the wrath of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.13.13"><span class="content">in the day of his burning anger.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.13.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.13.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Like a hunted gazelle,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.13.14"><span class="content">like sheep without a shepherd,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.13.14"><span class="content">they will all return to their own people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.13.14"><span class="content">they will flee to their native land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.13.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.13.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Whoever is captured will be thrust through;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.13.15"><span class="content">all who are caught will fall by the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.13.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.13.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.13.16"><span class="content">their houses will be looted and their wives violated.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.13.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.13.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">See, I will stir up against them the Medes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.13.17"><span class="content">who do not care for silver</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.13.17"><span class="content">and have no delight in gold.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.13.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.13.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Their bows will strike down the young men;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.13.18"><span class="content">they will have no mercy on infants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.13.18"><span class="content">nor will they look with compassion on children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.13.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.13.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.13.19"><span class="content">the pride and glory of the Babylonians,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">13:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Chaldeans</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.13.19"><span class="content">will be overthrown by God</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.13.19"><span class="content">like Sodom and Gomorrah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.13.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.13.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">She will never be inhabited</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.13.20"><span class="content">or lived in through all generations;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.13.20"><span class="content">there no nomads will pitch their tents,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.13.20"><span class="content">there no shepherds will rest their flocks.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.13.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.13.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">But desert creatures will lie there,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.13.21"><span class="content">jackals will fill her houses;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.13.21"><span class="content">there the owls will dwell,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.13.21"><span class="content">and there the wild goats will leap about.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.13.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.13.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Hyenas will inhabit her strongholds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.13.22"><span class="content">jackals her luxurious palaces.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.13.22"><span class="content">Her time is at hand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.13.22"><span class="content">and her days will not be prolonged.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="b"></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch14" data-usfm="ISA.14.1+ISA.14.2+ISA.14.3+ISA.14.4+ISA.14.5+ISA.14.6+ISA.14.7+ISA.14.8+ISA.14.9+ISA.14.10+ISA.14.11">
         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will have compassion on Jacob;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.14.1"><span class="content">once again he will choose Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.14.1"><span class="content">and will settle them in their own land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.14.1"><span class="content">Foreigners will join them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.14.1"><span class="content">and unite with the descendants of Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.14.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Nations will take them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.14.2"><span class="content">and bring them to their own place.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.14.2"><span class="content">And Israel will take possession of the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.14.2"><span class="content">and make them male and female servants in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.14.2"><span class="content">They will make captives of their captors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.14.2"><span class="content">and rule over their oppressors.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.14.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">On the day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and from the harsh labor forced on you, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.14.4"><span class="content">How the oppressor has come to an end!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.14.4"><span class="content">How his fury</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:4 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> has ended!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has broken the rod of the wicked,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.14.5"><span class="content">the scepter of the rulers,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.14.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">which in anger struck down peoples</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.14.6"><span class="content">with unceasing blows,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.14.6"><span class="content">and in fury subdued nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.14.6"><span class="content">with relentless aggression.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.14.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All the lands are at rest and at peace;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.14.7"><span class="content">they break into singing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.14.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Even the junipers and the cedars of Lebanon</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.14.8"><span class="content">gloat over you and say,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.14.8"><span class="content">&#8220;Now that you have been laid low,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.14.8"><span class="content">no one comes to cut us down.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.14.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The realm of the dead below is all astir</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.14.9"><span class="content">to meet you at your coming;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.14.9"><span class="content">it rouses the spirits of the departed to greet you&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.14.9"><span class="content">all those who were leaders in the world;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.14.9"><span class="content">it makes them rise from their thrones&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.14.9"><span class="content">all those who were kings over the nations.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They will all respond,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.14.10"><span class="content">they will say to you,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.14.10"><span class="content">&#8220;You also have become weak, as we are;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.14.10"><span class="content">you have become like us.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.14.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">All your pomp has been brought down to the grave,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.14.11"><span class="content">along with the noise of your harps;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.14.11"><span class="content">maggots are spread out beneath you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.14.11"><span class="content">and worms cover you.</span></span></div>
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