Isa 13:6-10, 19-22, 14:22-24, Jer 50:12-13, 35-40, 51:8-9, 25-26, 37-44, 62 | ESV | STEP | Wail , for the day of the Lord is near ; as destruction from the Almighty it will come !

6 ^aWail, for ^bthe day of the Lord is near;
as destruction from the Almighty ^{▼▼The Hebrew words for destruction and almighty sound alike} it will come!
7 Therefore all hands will be feeble,
and every human heart ^dwill melt.
8 They will be dismayed:
^epangs and agony will seize them;
^fthey will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at one another;
their faces will be aflame.
9 Behold, ^gthe day of the Lord comes,
cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,
to make the land a desolation
and ^hto destroy its sinners from it.
10 ⁱFor the stars of the heavens and their constellations
will not give their light;
^jthe sun will be dark at its rising,
and the moon will not shed its light.

Isaiah 13:19-22

19 And Babylon, ^kthe glory of kingdoms,
the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans,
will be ^llike Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.
20 ^mIt will never be inhabited
or lived in for all generations;
no ⁿArab will pitch his tent there;
no ^oshepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
21 But ^pwild animals will lie down there,
and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there ^qostriches ^{▼▼Or owls} will dwell,
and there wild goats will dance.
22 Hyenas ^{▼▼Or foxes} will cry in its towers,
and ^tjackals in ^uthe pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand
and its days will not be prolonged.

Isaiah 14:22-24

22 “I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and ^vremnant, ^wdescendants and posterity,” declares the Lord. 23 “And I will make it a possession of the ^xhedgehog, ^{▼▼Possibly porcupine, or owl} and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.

An Oracle Concerning Assyria

24 The Lord of hosts has sworn:
^z“As I have planned,
so shall it be,
and as I have purposed,
so shall it stand,

Jeremiah 50:12-13

12 your mother shall be utterly shamed,
and she who bore you shall be disgraced.
Behold, she shall be the last of the nations,
^aaa wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
13 ^abBecause of the wrath of the Lord she shall not be inhabited
but shall be an utter desolation;
^aceveryone who passes by Babylon shall be appalled,
^adand hiss because of all her wounds.

Jeremiah 50:35-40

35 “A sword against the Chaldeans, declares the Lord,
and against the inhabitants of Babylon,
and against ^aeher officials and her ^afwise men!
36 A sword against the diviners,
that they may become fools!
A sword against her ^agwarriors,
that they may be destroyed!
37 A sword against her horses and against her chariots,
and against all ^ahthe foreign troops in her midst,
that ^aithey may become women!
^ajA sword against all her treasures,
that they may be plundered!
38 ^akA drought against her waters,
that they may be dried up!
^alFor it is a land of images,
and they are mad over idols.
39 ^am“Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon, and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations. 40 ^anAs when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the Lord, ^aoso no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.

Jeremiah 51:8-9

8 ^apSuddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;
^aqwail for her!
^arTake balm for her pain;
perhaps she may be healed.
9 We would have healed Babylon,
but she was not healed.
^asForsake her, and ^atlet us go
each to his own country,
for ^auher judgment has reached up to heaven
and has been lifted up even to the skies.

Jeremiah 51:25-26

25 “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain,

declares the Lord,
which destroys the whole earth;
I will stretch out my hand against you,
and roll you down from the crags,
^avand make you a burnt mountain.
26 No ^awstone shall be taken from you for a corner
and no stone for a foundation,
but you shall be ^axa perpetual waste,
declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:37-44

37 and Babylon shall become ^aya heap of ruins,
^azthe haunt of jackals,
^baa horror ^bband a hissing,
without inhabitant.
38 ^bc“They shall roar together ^bdlike lions;
they shall growl like lions’ cubs.
39 ^beWhile they are inflamed ^bfI will prepare them a feast
and ^bgmake them drunk, that they may become merry,
^bhthen sleep a perpetual sleep
and not wake, declares the Lord.
40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams and male goats.
41 “How ^biBabylon ^{▼▼Hebrew Sheshach, a code name for Babylon} is taken,
^bkthe praise of the whole earth ^blseized!
How Babylon has become
a horror among the nations!
42 ^bmThe sea has come up on Babylon;
she is covered with its tumultuous waves.
43 Her cities have become a horror,
^bna land of drought and a desert,
^boa land in which no one dwells,
and through which no son of man passes.
44 And I will punish ^bpBel in Babylon,
and ^bqtake out of his mouth ^brwhat he has swallowed.
^bsThe nations shall no longer flow to him;
^btthe wall of Babylon has fallen.

Jeremiah 51:62

62 and say, ‘O Lord, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so ^buthat nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be ^bvdesolate forever.’