Listen, a tumult on the mountains,
A tumult of assembled kingdoms is heard on the mountains.
This verse presents the nations as a gathered host under God's direction.
1This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received: 2Raise a banner on a barren hilltop; 3I have commanded My sanctified ones; 4Listen, a tumult on the mountains, 5They are coming from faraway lands, 6Wail, for the Day of the LORD is near; 7Therefore all hands will fall limp, 8Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; 9Behold, the Day of the LORD is coming— 10For the stars of heaven and their constellations 11I will punish the world for its evil 12I will make man scarcer than pure gold, 13Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, 14Like a hunted gazelle, 15Whoever is caught will be stabbed, 16Their infants will be dashed to pieces 17Behold, I will stir up against them the Medes, 18Their bows will dash young men to pieces; 19And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, 20She will never be inhabited 21But desert creatures will lie down there, 22Hyenas will howl in her fortresses