Old Testament · Prophets
Isaiah chapter 34
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Come close, you , and listen.
Pay attention, you .
Let the earth hear — and everything in it,
the world and all that springs from it.Because Yahweh is with all the nations,
burning with anger against all their armies.
He has ,
handed them over to slaughter.Their slain will be thrown out,
the will rise from their corpses,
and the mountains will be drenched with their blood.All the stars in the sky will dissolve,
the heavens will be ,
and all their will wither and fall —
like a leaf dropping from a vine,
like a shriveled fig from a tree.When my sword has in the heavens,
watch — it comes down on ,
on the people I have .Yahweh’s sword is soaked with blood,
coated with fat —
the blood of lambs and goats,
the fat from the kidneys of rams.
Because Yahweh has a in ,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom. will go down with them,
young bulls with the mighty ones.
Their land will be drunk with blood,
their dust made rich with fat.Because Yahweh has a day of ,
a year of
for the cause of .Edom’s streams will turn to ,
her dust to ,
her land will become burning pitch.Night and day it will never go out;
its smoke will rise .
Generation after generation it will lie in ruins;
no one will ever pass through it again.The desert owl and the screech owl will claim it,
the great owl and the raven will nest there.
Yahweh will stretch out over it
the of
and the plumb line of .Her — there is nothing left there to call a kingdom,
and all her princes will come to nothing.Thorns will overrun her fortresses,
nettles and thistles will fill her strongholds.
She will become a haunt for ,
a home for . will meet with hyenas,
and will call out to each other.
There too the will settle
and find for herself a resting place.There the will nest and lay eggs,
hatch them and gather her young under her shadow.
There too the will gather,
each one with its mate.Search through Yahweh’s and read it:
not one of these will be missing,
none will lack its mate.
Because his mouth has given the command,
and his has gathered them together.He himself has for them,
his hand has divided it out to them with the .
They will possess it ;
generation after generation they will live there.