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Isaiah 34:1
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Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken,
ye peoples: let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all things
that come forth from it. |
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Isaiah 34:2 |
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For Jehovah hath indignation against all the
nations, and wrath against all their host: he hath utterly destroyed them, he
hath delivered them to the slaughter. |
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Isaiah 34:3 |
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Their slain also shall be cast out, and the
stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with
their blood. |
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Isaiah 34:4 |
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And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved,
and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall
fade away, as the leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as a fading leaf from the
fig-tree. |
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Isaiah 34:5 |
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For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven:
behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
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Isaiah 34:6 |
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The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it
is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the
kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter
in the land of Edom. |
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Isaiah 34:7 |
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And the wild-oxen shall come down with them,
and the bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and
their dust made fat with fatness. |
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Isaiah 34:8 |
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For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year
of recompense for the cause of Zion. |
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Isaiah 34:9 |
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And the streams of Edom shall be turned into
pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become
burning pitch. |
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Isaiah 34:10 |
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It shall not be quenched night nor day; the
smoke thereof shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie
waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. |
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Isaiah 34:11 |
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But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess
it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it
the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness. |
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Isaiah 34:12 |
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They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom,
but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing. |
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Isaiah 34:13 |
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And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles
and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals,
a court for ostriches. |
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Isaiah 34:14 |
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And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet
with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster
shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest. |
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Isaiah 34:15 |
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There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and
lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there shall the kites be gathered,
every one with her mate. |
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Isaiah 34:16 |
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Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read:
no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath
commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them. |
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Isaiah 34:17 |
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And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand
hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever; from generation
to generation shall they dwell therein. |
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