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Isaiah 13:5

New American Bible - revised edition

They come from a far-off country, and from the end of the heavens, The Lord and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy all the land.

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How can the warriors have fallen, the weapons of war have perished!

Ah! Assyria, the rod of my wrath, the staff I wield in anger.

I am stirring up against them the Medes, who think nothing of silver and take no delight in gold.

See! The Lord is about to empty the earth and lay it waste; he will twist its surface, and scatter its inhabitants:

Go, my people, enter your chambers, and close the doors behind you; Hide yourselves for a brief moment, until the wrath is past.

See, the name of the Lord is coming from afar, burning with anger, heavy with threat, His lips filled with fury, tongue like a consuming fire,

The Lord is angry with all the nations, enraged against all their host; He has placed them under the ban, given them up to slaughter.

All of you assemble and listen: Who among you declared these things? The one the Lord loves shall do his will against Babylon and the offspring of Chaldea.

He will raise a signal to a far-off nation, and whistle for it from the ends of the earth. Then speedily and promptly they will come.

You will see and your heart shall exult, and your bodies shall flourish like the grass; The Lord’s power shall be revealed to his servants, but to his enemies, his wrath.

On that day The Lord shall whistle for the fly in the farthest streams of Egypt, and for the bee in the land of Assyria.

The Lord opens his armory, brings out the weapons of his wrath; The Lord God of hosts has work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.

A nation from the north advances against it, making the land desolate So that no one can live there; human beings and animals have fled.

See, I am stirring up against Babylon a band of great nations from the land of the north; They are arrayed against her, from there she shall be taken. Their arrows are like the arrows of a skilled warrior who never returns empty-handed.

Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers; The Lord has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, for his resolve is Babylon’s destruction. Yes, it is retribution from the Lord, retribution for his temple.

Listen! the cry of the daughter of my people, far and wide in the land! “Is the Lord no longer in Zion, is her King no longer in her midst?” Why do they provoke me with their idols, with their foreign nonentities?

Therefore I have poured out my fury upon them; with my fiery wrath I have consumed them, bringing down their ways upon their heads—oracle of the Lord God.

And he will send out his angels with a trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. The Lesson of the Fig Tree.




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