1 The mashaa (burden) of Babal (Babylon), which Yashaiyah (Isaiah) the ban (son) of Amawatz (Amoz) chazah (saw):
2 Nashaa (lift) up a nas (banner) on the bare har (mountain)! Rawam (will lift up) up your qawal (sound / voice) to them! Nawap (wave) your yad (hand), that they may bawaa (bring) into the pathachay (gates) of the nadayabayam (nobles).
3 I have tzawah (commanded) my qadash (set apart / make holy) ones; yes, I have qaraa (called) my gabawar (mighty) men for my ap (nostril / picture: bull snorting), even my gaawah (proudly) exulting ilayazay (ones).
4 The qawal (sound / voice) of a hamawan (multitude) is in the harayam (mountains), as of a rab (great) im (nation / people); the qawal (sound / voice) of an uproar of the mamalakawath (kingdoms) of the gawayam (nations) asap (gathered) together! Yahawah () of tzabaawath (armies) is mustering the tzabaa (troop) for the malachamah (battle).
5 They bawaa (come) from a marachaq (far) aratz (Earth/land), from the uttermost part of shamayam (Shamayam / Heavens), even Yahawah (), and the kalay (weapons) of his zaim (indignation), to chabal (destroy) the whole aratz (Earth/land).
6 Wail; for the yawam (day) of Yahawah () is at qarawab (hand)! It will bawaa (come) as shad (destruction) from the Shaday ().
7 Therefore all yadayam (hands) will be rapah (feeble), and everyone's labab (heart) will melt.
8 They will be bahal (dismayed). Tzayarayam (pangs) and chabalayam (sorrows) will seize them. They will be in chawal (pain) like a yalad (birth / begot) in labor. They will look in amazement ayash (man / husband) at rai (neigbor/another person). Their panay (face of) will be panay (face of) of flame.
9 Behold, the yawam (day) of Yahawah () bawaa (come), akazaray (cruel), with ibarah (wrath) and charawan (fierce) ap (nostril / picture: bull snorting); to shawam (place / establish / appoint) the aratz (Earth/land) a shamah (desolation), and to shamad (destroy) its chataa (sinners) out of it.
10 For the kawakabay (stars) of the sky and its kasayal (constellations) will not halal (praise) their awar (light). The shamash (sun) will be chashak (darkness) in its yatzaa (go out / come out) forth, and the yarach (moon) will not cause its awar (light) to nagah (shine).
11 I will paqad (visit) the thabal (world) for their rai (evil), and the rashai (wicked) for their iwan (guilt/iniquity). I will cause the arrogance of the zad (proud) to shabath (shabath / rest), and will shapal (humble) the gaawah (haughtiness) of the irayatz (terrible).
12 I will make anawash (people) more rare than paz (fine) gold, even a adam (person) than the katham (pure) gold of Awapayar (Ophir).
13 Therefore I will make the shamayam (Shamayam / Heavens) ragaz (tremble), and the aratz (Earth/land) will be raish (shaken) out of its maqawam (place) in the ibarah (wrath) of Yahawah () of tzabaawath (armies)’, and in the yawam (day) of his charawan (fierce) ap (nostril / picture: bull snorting).
14 It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like tzaan (sheep) that no ayash (man / husband) qabatz (gathers), they will each panah (turn) to their own im (nation / people), and will ayash (man / husband) nawas (flee) to their own aratz (Earth/land).
15 Everyone who is matzaa (found) will be thrust daqar (through). Everyone who is captured will napal (fall / be cast down) by the charab (sword).
16 Their iwalal (infants) also will be ratash (dashed) in pieces before their iyan (eye). Their bayath (house) will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
17 Behold, I will iwar (rouse / awaken) up the Maday (Medes) against them, who will not value kasap (silver), and as for zahab (gold), they chapatz (will) not delight in it.
18 Their qashathawath (bows) will ratash (dash) the nair (young) men in pieces; and they shall racham (show mercy / love) no pity on the paray (fruit) of the batan (womb). Their iyan (eye) will not chawas (spare) banayam (children).
19 Babal (Babylon), the glory of mamalakawath (kingdoms), the thapaarah (beauty) of the Kashaday (Chaldeans)’ gaawan (pride), will be like when Alahayam () mahapakah (overthrew) Sadam (Sodom) and Imarah (Gomorrah).
20 It will never be yashab (inhabit/dwell), neither will it be lived in from dawar (generation / age / period) to dawar (generation / age / period). The Irabay (Arabian) will not pitch a ahal (tent) there, neither will raiyam (shepherds) rabatz (make) their flocks lie down there.
21 But tzayay (wild) animals of the desert will rabatz (lie) there, and their bayath (house) will be malaa (full) of jackals. Ostriches will shakan (place) there, and wild shaiyarayam (goats) will frolic there.
22 Wolves will inah (answer / respond) in their castles, and jackals in the inag (pleasant) hayakalay (palaces). Her ith (time) is qarawab (near) to bawaa (bring), and her yawam (day) will not be prolonged.