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Constellations of the Zodiac (1574)
from Sala del Mappamondo - (Room of the World Map)
Raffaellino da Reggio (1550-1578) and Giovanni de' Vecchi (1536-1614)
Photographer: Alfredo Dagli Orti
Mannerist Style
Villa Farnese, Caprarola, Italy
Image Source: Rome Art Lover
Explanation: Isaiah 13 is the beginning of a series of "burdens" (Hebrew, massa - burden, carrying away, doom) pronounced against various foreign nations, and sometimes against one or both houses of Israel, and always with ultimate blessing for one or both houses of Israel. The series extends through chapter 23. Chapters 13 and 14 contain the burden of Babylon. Chapter 13 says that, upon Babylon, is coming a desolation so great that the very constellations by which they divined the future will be darkened, together with the stars, the sun, and the moon (verse 10). The LORD's agents will come from far away and will destroy the whole land; the strong will faint; hearts will melt; and pains of anguish will seize them (1-8). Sinners will be destroyed; the heavens will be darkened; the world [Babylon's world] will be punished; few will be left; heaven and earth will be shaken; death and great harm will come (9-16). The Meads will destroy them like Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed; the land will be desolate and filled with wild creatures (17-22).
[ THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: Isaiah 13. Isaiah 14. Isaiah 15. Isaiah 16. Isaiah 17. Isaiah 18. Isaiah 19. Isaiah 20. Isaiah 21. Isaiah 22. Isaiah 23. ]
[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
[ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]
[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
Isaiah 13
Cycles of Prophecy for the Nations & Judah ["The Book of Burdens" (Utterances, Oracles)] - (13:1 - 23:18)
Note: "Burden" (KJV) refers to burdensome Judgments on the various nations.
Cycle 1 - The Burden of Babylon (13:1 - 14:27)
Judgment: On Babylon and Assyria - Desolation by the Medes (13:1-22)
1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
2 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.
3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
4 The noise of a 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 host of the battle.
5 They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 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.
10 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.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 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.
14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
20 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.
21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls [daughters of owls] shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
22 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 days shall not be prolonged.
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