Isaiah 13:2-13 (6th Hour)
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“Lift up a banner on the high mountain, Raise your voice to them; Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles. |
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I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have also called My mighty ones for My anger— Those who rejoice in My exaltation.” |
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The noise of a multitude in the mountains, Like that of many people! A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together! The Lord of hosts musters The army for battle. |
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They come from a far country, From the end of heaven— The Lord and His weapons of indignation, To destroy the whole land. |
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Wail, for the day of the Lord is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty. |
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Therefore all hands will be limp, Every man’s heart will melt, |
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And they will be afraid. Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them; They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth; They will be amazed at one another; Their faces will be like flames. |
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Behold, the day of the Lord comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay the land desolate; And He will destroy its sinners from it. |
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For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not give their light; The sun will be darkened in its going forth, And the moon will not cause its light to shine. |
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“I will punish the world for its evil, And the wicked for their iniquity; I will halt the arrogance of the proud, And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. |
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I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold, A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir. |
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Therefore I will shake the heavens, And the earth will move out of her place, In the wrath of the Lord of hosts And in the day of His fierce anger. |