| 1 | The burden of Babylon, which Isaias the son of Amos saw. |
| 2 | Upon the dark mountain lift ye up a banner, exalt the voice, lift up the hand, and let the rulers go into the gates. |
| 3 | I have commanded my sanctified ones, and have called my strong ones in my wrath, them that rejoice in my glory. |
| 4 | The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as it were of many people, the noise of the sound of kings, of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts hath given charge to the troops of war. |
| 5 | To them that come from a country afar off, from the end of heaven: tile Lord and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy the whole land. |
| 6 | Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is near: it shall come as a destruction from the Lord. |
| 7 | Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall melt, |
| 8 | And shall be broken. Gripings and pains shall take hold of them, they shall be in pain as a woman in labour. Every one shall be amazed at his neighbour, their countenances shall be as faces burnt. |
| 9 | Behold, the day of the Lord shall come, a cruel day, and full of indignation, and of wrath, and fury, to lay the land desolate, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it. |
| 10 | For the stars of heaven, and their brightness shall not display their light: the sun shall be darkened in his rising, and the moon shall not shine with her light. |
| 11 | And I will visit the evils of the world, and against the wicked for their iniquity: and I will make the pride of infidels to cease, and will bring down the arrogancy of the mighty. |
| 12 | A man shall be more precious than gold, yea a man than the finest of gold. |
| 13 | For this I will trouble the heaven: and the earth shall be moved out of her place, for the indignation of the Lord of hosts, and for the day of his tierce wrath. |
| 14 | And they shall be as a doe fleeing away, and as a sheep: and there shall be none to gather them together: every man shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land. |
| 15 | Every one that shall be found, shall be slain: and every one that shall come to their aid, shall fall by the sword. |
| 16 | Their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be ravished. |
| 17 | Behold I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not seek silver, nor desire gold: |
| 18 | But with their arrows they shall kill the children, and shall have no pity upon the sucklings of the womb, and their eye shall not spare their sons. |
| 19 | And that Babylon, glorious among kingdoms, the famous pride of the Chaldeans, shall be even as the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha. |
| 20 | It shall no more be inhabited for ever, and it shall not be founded unto generation and generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch his tents there, nor shall shepherds rest there. |
| 21 | But wild beasts shall rest there, and their houses shall be filled with serpents, and ostriches shall dwell there, and the hairy ones shall dance there: |
| 22 | And owls shall answer one another there, in the houses thereof, and sirens in the temples of pleasure. |
