Babylon the 'Great'
13:9 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.
13:10 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.
13:11 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.
13:12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than
the golden wedge of Ophir.
13:13 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.
13:14 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.
13:15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one
that is joined [unto them] shall fall by the sword.
13:16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their
eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not
regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in it.
13:18 [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.
13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees'
excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
13:20 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.
Book of Isaiah
God's will: pride falls
Obadiah 1:3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that
dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation [is] high; that
saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
1:4 Though thou exalt [thyself] as the eagle, and though thou set thy
nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.