<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1200000">Book of Mormon</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1200643">2 Nephi</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1201184">Chapter 23</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1201177">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1201207">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Excerpts from the Book of Isaiah. Comprising Chapters 16 to 24 inclusive. Compare Isaiah 6-14.</em></p><p><em>Original Chapter 10. Comprising chapters 23 and 24.</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201185">1</a>. The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201186">2</a>. Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201187">3</a>. I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones, for mine anger is not upon them that rejoice in my highness.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201188">4</a>. The noise of the multitude in the mountains like as of a great people, a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together, the Lord of Hosts mustereth the hosts of the battle.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201189">5</a>. They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, yea, the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201190">6</a>. Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201191">7</a>. Therefore shall all hands be faint, every man's heart shall melt;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201192">8</a>. And they shall be afraid; pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201193">9</a>. Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201194">10</a>. For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201195">11</a>. And I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay down the haughtiness of the terrible.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201196">12</a>. I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201197">13</a>. Therefore, I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of Hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201198">14</a>. And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up; and they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201199">15</a>. Every one that is proud shall be thrust through; yea, and every one that is joined to the wicked shall fall by the sword.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201200">16</a>. Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled and their wives ravished.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201201">17</a>. Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver and gold, nor shall they delight in it.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201202">18</a>. Their bows shall also dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201203">19</a>. And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201204">20</a>. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201205">21</a>. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1201206">22</a>. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces; and her time is near to come, and her day shall not be prolonged.  For I will destroy her speedily; yea, for I will be merciful unto my people, but the wicked shall perish.</li>
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