Isaiah 34
34
XXXIV
1Come near, ye nations, to hear;
And hearken, ye people:
Let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof;
The world, and all things that spring from it.
2For the indignation of Jehovah is upon all nations,
And his fury upon all their armies:
He hath devoted them, he hath given them up to the slaughter.
3And their slain shall he cast out,
And from their carcases their stench shall ascend;
And the mountains shall melt with their blood.
4And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved.
And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll;
And all their host shall fall down
As the leaf falleth off from the vine:
And as the falling of a fig from a fig-tree.
5For my sword hath already been made drunk in the heavens:
Behold, on Edom it shall descend;
And on the people justly devoted by me to destruction.
6The sword of Jehovah is glutted with blood,
It is made fat with fatness:
With the blood of lambs and of 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.
7And with them shall be slaughtered the buffaloes,
And the bullocks with the bulls;
So that their land shall be drunk with blood,
And their dust made fat with fatness.
8For to Jehovah there is a day of vengeance,
A year of recompence for the vindication of Zion.
9And her streams shall be turned into pitch,
And her dust into brimstone;
And her land shall become burning pitch.
10By night or by day it shall not be extinguished,
For ever shall her smoke ascend:
From generation to generation she shall lie waste,
To everlasting ages no one shall pass through her.
11But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it;
The owl also and the raven shall dwell in it:
And He shall stretch over her the line of devastation,
And the plummet of destruction.
12As for her nobles, there is not one there whom they might call to the government of the kingdom;
And all her princes are nothingness.
13And in her palaces shall spring up thorns;
The nettle and the bramble, in her fortresses:
And she shall be an habitation for jackals,
A dwelling-place for the daughters of the ostrich.
14And the wild cats shall meet the jackals,
And the satyr shall call to his fellow:
There also the screech owl shall resort,
And find for herself a place of rest.
15There shall the darting serpent make her nest, and lay her eggs:
And she shall hatch them, and gather her young under her shadow.
There also shall the vultures be gathered together,
Each one with her mate.
16Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read:
No one of these hath been missing,
No female hath lacked her mate;
For my mouth it hath commanded,
And his Spirit it hath gathered them.
17And he hath cast the lot for them,
And his hand hath divided it for them with the line:
They shall possess it for ever;
From generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
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Translated by Rev John Jones (Ioan Tegid).Published at Oxford in 1830, second edition 1842.
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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