Isaiah 13:18-20

International Standard Version

¹⁸ Their bows will dash the young men to pieces;
    they’ll show no pity on those not yet born,^[a]
        and^[b] their eyes will not spare children.
¹⁹ Babylon, that jewel of kingdoms,
    the splendor and pride of the Chaldeans,
will be like Sodom and Gomorrah,
    when God overthrew them—
²⁰ It will never be inhabited
    or lived in through all generations;
no Bedouin^[c] will pitch his tent there;
    no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.