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Chad, we are in Isaiah chapter 13.

We ended up on a real bummermer. I don't know that it's

going to get better soon because we ended in the middle of a bummer, not the end of a bummer.

And so we have Isaiah getting a little poetic, getting a little, I don't know, he's singing a song,

reciting.

This writing is not simply prophetic, but also he's using more colorful and flowery language than that.

And we're talking about here about the judgment of Babylon.

And so what this is going to look like and ended with,

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