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The heavens darken. COSMIC JUDGMENT IMAGE | Darkened lights and a trembling earth accompany the humbling of pride. The landscape interprets the oracle’s cosmic language.
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Isaiah 13:9-13

The heavens darken

The Fall of Babylon · Isaiah 13

Story guide: COSMIC JUDGMENT IMAGE | Darkened lights and a trembling earth accompany the humbling of pride. The landscape interprets the oracle’s cosmic language.

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9Behold, the day of Yahweh is coming—cruel, with wrath and fierce anger—to make the land a desolation, and he will destroy its sinners from it.

10For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun is darkened at its rising, and the moon will not make its light shine.

11And I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and I will humble the haughtiness of the ruthless.

12I will make mortal man rarer than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir.

13Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will shake from its place, at the fury of Yahweh of Armies, in the day of his burning anger.

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