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| 1 The oracle on Babylon,–of which Isaiah, son of Amoz, had vision:– |
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| 2 Upon a bare mountain, lift ye up a standard, Raise high the voice, to them, Wave the hand, That they may enter the doors of nobles. |
Exalt the voice – The voice of our Returned Lord, the voice of Present Truth. See Isa. 52:8 |
| 3 I myself, have given charge to my hallowed ones,–Yea I have called, My heroes in showing mine anger, My proudly, exulting ones. |
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| 4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, A resemblance of many people,–The noise of a tumult of kingdoms, Nations gathered together, Yahweh of hosts, mustering a host for battle!
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In the mountains – In the Kingdoms (of Christendom.)
The kingdoms of nations gathered together – Joel 3:2
The LORD hosts mustereth the hosts for the battle – "And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." Rev. 16:16 |
| 5 They are coming in, From a land far away, From the utmost bound of the heavens,–Yahweh–with his weapons of indignation, To destroy the land. |
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| 6 Howl ye! for at hand, is the day of Yahweh,–As a veritable destruction from the Almighty, shall it come. |
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| 7 For this cause–All hands, shall hang down,–and, Every mortal heart, melt. |
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| 8 And they shall be in distress–Writhings and pains, shall lay hold, As a woman in childbirth, shall they be in pangs,–Every one, at his neighbour, shall look in amazement, Faces of flames, their faces! |
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| 9 Lo! the day of Yahweh, coming in, Fierce and overflowing, and burning with anger,–To devote the earth to desolation, And her sinners, will he destroy out of it. |
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| 10 For, the stars of the heavens, and their constellations, shall not flash forth their light,–Obscured, shall be, the sun, in his, going forth, And, the moon, shall not shed her light. |
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| 11 And I will visit, upon the inhabited earth, calamity, And, upon the lawless, their punishment, And will quiet the arrogance of the proud, And, the loftiness of tyrants, will I lay low. |
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| 12 I will cause, a man, to be more precious than, fine gold,–Even, a son of earth, than, the finest gold of Ophir. |
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| 13 For this cause, the heavens, will I disturb, And, the earth, shall tremble, out of her place,–In the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, And in the day of the glow of his anger. |
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| 14 And it shall be–Like a gazelle that is chased, And like a sheep with none, to lift it up,–Each, to his own people, will they turn, And, each, to his own land, will they flee: |
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| 15 Every one found, shall be thrust through,–And, every one taken, shall fall by the sword; |
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| 16 And, their infants, shall be dashed to the ground, before their eyes,–Plundered, shall be, their houses, and, their wives ravished. |
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| 17 Behold me! stirring up against them, the Medes,–Who, of silver, shall take no account, And, as for gold, they shall not delight in it; |
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| 18 And, bows, shall dash the young to pieces,–And, on the fruit of the womb, will they have no pity, Over children, will, their eye, throw no shield. |
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| 19 Thus shall Babylon–The most lovely of kingdoms, The majestic beauty of the Chaldees–Become, as in the divine overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah. |
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| 20 It shall not be dwelt, in for ever, Neither shall it be inhabited, from generation to generation,–Neither shall encamp there, an Arab, Nor, shepherds, fold their flocks there. |
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| 21 Then shall lie down, there, wild beasts, And filled, shall be their houses, with, owls,–Then shall inhabit there, the ostrich, And, shaggy creatures, shall dance there. |
The wild beasts of the desert – Compare with Isa. 34:14
Doleful creatures – Doleful is Strong's 255 (used here only), taken from 253 which is translated as 'Alas.' Thus these are mourning, much like that described in Rev. 18:9-19. |
| 22 And jackals, shall answer, in their citadels, And, wild dogs, in their voluptuous palaces,–And near to come, is, her time, And, her days, shall not be delayed. |
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