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Isaiah 13

The Medes and Persians shall destroy Babylon.
1.The aburden of Babél, which Isaiáh the son of Amóz did see.
2.Lift up a standard upon the high mountain: lift up the voice unto them: wag the bhand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
3.I have commanded them, that I have csanctified, and I have called the mightie to my wrath, & them that rejoice in my dglorie.
4.The noise of a multitude is in the mountains, like a great people: a tumultuous voice of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together: the Lord of hostes nombreth the host of the battle.
5.They come from a far country, from the end of the heaven: even the Lord with the eweapons of his wrath to destroy the whole land.
6.Howl fyou, for the day of the Lord is at hand, it shall come as a destroyer from the Almighty.
7.Therefore shall all hands be weakened, and all men’s hearts shall melt,
8.And they shalbe afraid: anguish and sorrow shall take them, and they shall have pain, as a woman that travaileth: every one shalbe amazed at his neighbour, and their faces shalbe like gflames of fire.
9.Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger to lay the land waste: and he shall destroy the sinners out of it.
10.For the hstars of heaven and the planets thereof shall not give their light: the sun shalbe darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11.And I will visit the wickedness upon the iworld, and their iniquity upon the wicked, and I will cause the arrogancy of the kproud to cease, and will cast down the pride of tyrants.
12.I will make a lman more precious then fine gold, even a man above the wedge of gold of Ophír.
13.Therefore I will shake the heaven, and the earth shall remove out of her place in the wrath of the Lord of hostes, and in the day of his fierce anger.
14.And mit shalbe as a chased doe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up, every man shall turn to his own people, and flee each one to his own land.
15.Every one that is found, shalbe stricken through: and whosoever joyneth him self, shall fall by the sword.
16.*Their nchildren also shalbe broken in pieces before their eyes: their houses shalbe spoiled, and their wives ravished.
17.Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver, not be desirous of gold.
18.With bows also shall they destroy the children, and shall have no compassion upon the fruit of the womb, and their eyes shall not spare the children.
19.And Babél the glory of kingdoms, the beauty and pride of the Chaldeans, shalbe as the destruction of God *in Sodóm and Gomoráh.
20.It shall not be inhabited for ever, neither shall it be dwelled in from generation to generation: neither shall the oArabian pitch his tents there, neither shall the shepherds make their folds there.
21.But pZiím shall lodge there, and their houses shalbe full of Ohim: Ostriches shall dwell there, & the Satyrs shall dance there.
22.And Iim shall cry in their palaces, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and the time thereof is ready to come, and the daies thereof shall not be prolonged.

Notes

1-a.
That is, the great calamity, which was prophecied to come on Babel, as a most grievous burden which they were not able to bear. In these 12 Chapters following, he speaks of the plagues, wherewith God would smite these strange nations, (whom they knew) to declare that God chastised the Israelites as his children, and these other as his enemies and also that if God spare not these that are ignorant, that they must not think strange, if he punished them, which have knowledge of his Law and keep it not.
2-b.
To wit, to the Medes and the Persians.
3-c.
That is, prepared and appointed to execute my judgements.
3-d.
Which willingly go about the work, whereunto I appoint them, but how the wicked do this, read Chap. 10.6.
5-e.
The army of the Medes and the Persians against Babylon.
6-f.
You Babylonians.
8-g.
The Babylonian’s anger, and grief shall be so much, that their faces shall burn as fire.
10-h.
They that are overcome, shall think that all the powers of heaven and earth are against them, Ezek. 32.7, Joel 3.15, Mat. 24.29.
11-i.
He compares Babylon to the whole world, because they so esteemed themselves by reason of their great empire.
11-k.
He notes the principle vice, whereunto they were most given, as are all that abunde in wealth.
12-l.
He notes the great slaughter that shall be, seeing the enemy shall neither for gold, or silver spare a man’s life, as verse 17.
14-m.
Meaning, the power of Babylon with their hired soldiers.
16-*.
Ps. 137.9.
16-n.
This was not accomplished when Cyrus took Babylon, but after the death of Alexander the Great.
19-*.
Gen. 19.24, Jer. 50.40.
20-o.
Who used to go from country to country to find pasture for their beasts, but there shall they find none.
21-p.
Which were either wild beasts, or fowls, or wicked spirits, where by Satan deluded man, as by the fairies, globulins and such like fantasies.