Isaiah 13:2-13 (6th Hour)
- 2
- “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.
- 3
- I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have also called My mighty ones for My anger – those who rejoice in My exaltation.”
- 4
- 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.
- 5
- They come from a far country, from the end of heaven – the Lord and His weapons of indignation, to destroy the whole land.
- 6
- Wail, for the day of the Lord is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
- 7
- Therefore all hands will be limp, every man’s heart will melt,
- 8
- 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.
- 9
- 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.
- 10
- 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.
- 11
- “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.
- 12
- I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold, a man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.
- 13
- 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.