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The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the sonne of Amoz did see.

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Lift yee vp a banner vpon the high mountaine, exalt the voice vnto them, shake the hand, that they may goe into the gates of the nobles.

3   
I haue commanded my sanctified ones: I haue also called my mightie ones for mine anger, euen them that reioyce in my highnesse.

4   
The noise of a multitude in the mountaines, ^note like as of a great people: a tumultuous noise of the kingdomes of nations gathered together: the Lord of hostes mustereth the hoste of the battell.

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They come from a farre countrey from the end of heauen, euen the Lord and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

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¶ Howle yee; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

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Therefore shall all hands ^note bee faint, and euery mans heart shall melt.

8   
And they shalbe afraid: pangs and sorrowes shall take hold of them, they shalbe in paine as a woman that trauelleth: they shalbe ^note amazed ^note one at another, their faces shalbe as ^note flames.

9   
Behold, the day of the Lord commeth, cruell both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

10   
For the starres of heauen, and the constellations thereof shall not giue their light: the sunne shalbe ^note darkened in his going forth, and the moone shall not cause her light to shine.

11   
And I will punish the world for their euill, and the wicked for their iniquitie; and I will cause the arrogancie of the proud to cease, and will lay low the hautinesse of the terrible.

12   
I will make a man more pretious then fine gold; euen a man then the golden wedge of Ophir.

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Therefore I will shake the heauens, and the earth shall remoue out of her place in the wrath of the Lord of hostes, and in the day of his fierce anger.

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And it shalbe as the chased Roe, and as a sheepe that no man taketh vp:

Against Babylon. they shall euery man turne to his owne people, and flee euery one into his owne land.

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Euery one that is found shall be thrust through: and euery one that is ioyned vnto them, shall fall by the sword.

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Their children also shalbe ^note dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses shalbe spoiled, ∧ their wiues rauished.

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Beholde, I will stirre vp the Medes against them, which shall not regard siluer, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

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Their bowes also shall dash the yong men to pieces, and they shall haue no pitie on the fruit of the wombe; their eye shall not spare children.

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¶ And Babylon the glory of kingdomes, the beautie of the Chaldees excellencie, shall be ^note as when God ouerthrew ^note Sodom and Gomorrah.

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It shall neuer be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, neither shal the shepheards make their fold there.

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But ^{note note} wilde beastes of the desert shall lye there, and their houses shalbe full of ^note dolefull creatures, and ^note owles shall dwell there, and Satyres shall daunce there.

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And the wilde ^note beastes of the Ilands shal cry in their ^note desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is neere to come, and her dayes shall not be prolonged. 693

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