Isaiah 34
34
1Come close, you nations, and listen! You peoples, pay attention! Hear these words everyone who lives on earth, and all that comes from it! 2The Lord's anger is against all the nations and his fury is against all their armies. He will completely destroy them; he will have them slaughtered. 3Those who are killed won't be buried; the stink of their bodies will rise; mountains will be washed away with their blood. 4The sun, moon, and stars of heaven will fade away,#34:4. The Dead Sea Scrolls have “The depths will be split open.” and the skies will be rolled up like a scroll. All the stars will fall like dried-up leaves from a vine, like dried-up figs from a fig tree.
5After my sword has finished what it has to do#34:5. “After my sword has finished what it has to do in the heavens”: the Dead Sea Scrolls have “My sword will appear in the sky.” in the heavens, it will come down on Edom, on the people I have doomed for destruction. 6The sword of the Lord is coated in blood and covered with fat—the blood of lambs and goats, and the fat of rams' kidneys. For there is a sacrifice for Lord happening in Bozrah,#34:6. Bozrah was an important Edomite town. a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 7Wild ox will fall with them, the young bulls along with the mature ones. Their land will be soaked with blood, and their soil soaked with fat.
8For the Lord has a day of punishment, a year of retribution, for the trouble caused to Zion. 9Edom's streams will be turned into tar, its soil into sulfur, and her land will become burning tar! 10The fire will burn day and night, and will never go out, its smoke will rise forever. From one generation to the next it will remain desolate—people won't ever go there again. 11The desert owl and screech owl will take it over, and the eagle owl and raven will live there. The Lord will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of destruction and a plumb line of desolation. 12Its nobles won't have anything to call a kingdom;#34:12. The Hebrew of this line is unclear. all its princes will be gone. 13Thorns will grow over its palaces; weeds and thistles will take over its fortresses. It will be a place where jackals live, a home for owls. 14It will be a meeting place for desert animals and hyenas, and wild goats will call to each other there. Night animals will settle there and find a place to rest. 15There the owl will build its nest, lay and hatch its eggs, and raise its chicks in the shade of its wings. It has become a roost for birds of prey, each one with its mate.
16Look in the scroll of the Lord and read what it says: Not a single one of these will be missing its mate, for the Lord has ordered this to happen, and his Spirit has gathered them together. 17He assigns them their territories, he divides up the land for them using a measuring line. These birds and animals#34:17. “Birds and animals”: supplied for clarity. will own it forever, from one generation to the next.
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Isaiah 34
34
Judgment on the Nations
1Draw near, #Ps. 49:1; [Joel 3:1, 2]O nations, to hear,
and give attention, O peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that fills it;
the world, and all that comes from it.
2For the Lord is enraged against all the nations,
and furious against all their host;
he has #[Josh. 6:21]devoted them to destruction,#34:2 That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verse 5 has given them over for slaughter.
3Their slain shall be cast out,
and #Joel 2:20 the stench of their corpses shall rise;
# [Ezek. 39:4] the mountains shall flow with their blood.
4 #
Joel 2:31; 3:15; Matt. 24:29; Acts 2:20; Rev. 6:13, 14; [Ps. 102:26; Heb. 1:11] All the host of heaven shall rot away,
and the skies roll up like a scroll.
All their host shall fall,
as leaves fall from the vine,
like leaves falling from the fig tree.
5For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
behold, it descends for judgment upon #See ch. 63:1-6; Jer. 49:7-22; Obad. 1-21; Mal. 1:2-4 Edom,
upon the people #[ver. 2]I have devoted to destruction.
6The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;
it is gorged with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
# ch. 63:1 For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 #
Num. 23:22 Wild oxen shall #ch. 47:1 fall with them,
and #Ps. 22:12young steers with #Ps. 22:12the mighty bulls.
Their land shall drink its fill of blood,
and their soil shall be gorged with fat.
8 # ch. 61:2; 63:4; Ps. 137:7 For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9 #
Deut. 29:23
And the streams of Edom#34:9 Hebrew her streams shall be turned into pitch,
and her soil into sulfur;
her land shall become burning pitch.
10Night and day #ch. 66:24 it shall not be quenched;
# [Rev. 14:11; 18:18; 19:3] its smoke shall go up forever.
#
Mal. 1:4
From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
none shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 # ch. 14:23; Zeph. 2:14; [Rev. 18:2] But the hawk and the porcupine#34:11 The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain shall possess it,
the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
#
2 Kgs. 21:13; Lam. 2:8; See Amos 7:7-9 He shall stretch the line of #[ch. 24:10]confusion#34:11 Hebrew formlessness over it,
and the plumb line of emptiness.
12Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom,
and all its princes shall be nothing.
13 # See ch. 32:13 Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,
nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of #ch. 13:22; Ps. 44:19; Mal. 1:3jackals,
an abode for ostriches.#34:13 Or owls
14 # See ch. 13:21 And wild animals shall meet with hyenas;
the wild goat shall cry to his fellow;
indeed, there the night bird#34:14 Identity uncertain settles
and finds for herself a resting place.
15There the owl nests and lays
and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow;
indeed, there #Deut. 14:13the hawks are gathered,
each one with her mate.
16Seek and read from the book of the Lord:
Not one of these shall be missing;
none shall be without her mate.
For the mouth of the Lord has commanded,
and his Spirit has gathered them.
17 # [Ps. 78:55] He has cast the lot for them;
his hand has portioned it out to them with the line;
they shall possess it forever;
from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.
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