Psa 37:13, 137:8-9, Isa 13:1, 8-22, 14:22-23, 21:9, Jer 25:12, 50:27 | ESV | STEP | but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming .

8 O daughter of Babylon, ^cdoomed to be destroyed,
blessed shall he be who ^drepays you
with what you have done to us!
9 Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones
and ^edashes them against the rock!

Isaiah 13:1

The Judgment of Babylon

1 The oracle concerning ^fBabylon which ^gIsaiah the son of Amoz saw.

Isaiah 13:8-22

8 They will be dismayed:
^hpangs and agony will seize them;
ⁱthey will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at one another;
their faces will be aflame.
9 Behold, ^jthe day of the Lord comes,
cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,
to make the land a desolation
and ^kto destroy its sinners from it.
10 ^lFor the stars of the heavens and their constellations
will not give their light;
^mthe sun will be dark at its rising,
and the moon will not shed its light.
11 I will punish ⁿthe world for its evil,
and the wicked for their iniquity;
I will ^oput an end to the pomp of the arrogant,
^pand lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.
12 I will make ^qpeople more rare than fine gold,
and mankind than the ^rgold of Ophir.
13 Therefore ^sI will make the heavens tremble,
and the earth will be shaken out of its place,
at the wrath of the Lord of hosts
in the day of his fierce anger.
14 And like a hunted gazelle,
or like sheep with none to gather them,
^teach will turn to his own people,
and each will flee to his own land.
15 Whoever is found will be thrust through,
and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.
16 ^uTheir infants will be dashed in pieces
before their eyes;
their houses will be plundered
and their wives ravished.
17 Behold, ^vI am stirring up the Medes against them,
who have no regard for silver
and do not delight in gold.
18 ^wTheir bows will slaughter ^{▼▼Hebrew dash in pieces} the young men;
they will have no mercy on the fruit of the womb;
their eyes will not pity children.
19 And Babylon, ^ythe glory of kingdoms,
the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans,
will be ^zlike Sodom and Gomorrah
when God overthrew them.
20 ^aaIt will never be inhabited
or lived in for all generations;
no ^abArab will pitch his tent there;
no ^acshepherds will make their flocks lie down there.
21 But ^adwild animals will lie down there,
and their houses will be full of howling creatures;
there ^aeostriches ^{▼▼Or owls} will dwell,
and there wild goats will dance.
22 Hyenas ^{▼▼Or foxes} will cry in its towers,
and ^ahjackals in ^aithe pleasant palaces;
its time is close at hand
and its days will not be prolonged.

Isaiah 14:22-23

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

Isaiah 21:9

9 And behold, here come riders,
horsemen in pairs!”
^anAnd he answered,
^ao“Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
^apand all the carved images of her gods
he has shattered to the ground.”

Jeremiah 25:12

12 Then after ^aqseventy years are completed, ^arI will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, ^asthe land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, ^atmaking the land an everlasting waste.

Jeremiah 50:27

27 Kill all ^auher bulls;
let them go down to the slaughter.
Woe to them, for their day has come,
^avthe time of their punishment.