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Isaiah 34
1 “Come near, you nations, to listen, and pay attention, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes out of it.
2 For the LORD is angry against all the nations, and furious against all their armies. He has doomed them to destruction, and a given them up to be slaughtered. b
3 Their slain c will be thrown out; and as for their dead bodies— their stench will ascend; the d mountains will be soaked with their blood.
4 The valleys will be split, all the stars e in the heavens will fall down, f and the skies will be rolled up like a scroll. All their starry host will fade away like leaves withering on a vine, or fruit withering on a fig tree.
5 For my sword will be seen g in the heavens. Look! It descends in judgment on Edom, on the people I have doomed to destruction.
6 The LORD has a sword bathed in blood; it’s covered h with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, and with fat from the kidneys of rams.” “For the LORD holds a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 Wild oxen will fall together with them— young steers and mighty bulls. Their land will be drenched i with blood, and their soil will be swollen with fat.
8 For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for Zion’s cause.
9 Edom’s j streams will be turned into burning sulfur, and its dust into sulfur; its land will become pitch.
10 It will burn night and day, and will never be extinguished. Its smoke will rise from generation to generation, and it will lie desolate forever and ever. And no one will pass through it. k
11 “But hawks and hedgehogs will possess it; owls and ravens will nest in it. God l will stretch out over it a measuring line, and chaos, m and plumb lines of emptiness, and its nobles. n
12 They will name it “No Kingdom There,” and all its princes will come to nothing.
13 Thorns will grow over its palaces, nettles and brambles its fortresses. It will become a haunt for jackals, a home for ostriches.
14 And desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and goat-demons will call out to each other. There also Liliths o will settle, and find for themselves p a resting place.
15 Owls q will nest there, lay eggs, hatch them, and care for their young under the shadow of their wings; r yes s indeed, vultures will gather there, each one with its mate.”
16 “Study and read from the book of the LORD: And not one t will be missing, each will not long for its mate. u For it is the mouth of the LORD that has issued the order, and it is his Spirit that has gathered them.
17 It is he who has allotted their portions, v and his hand has divided it for them with a measuring line forever. w They will possess it forever; x from generation to generation they will live in it.” y