Isaiah 34

Judgment on the Nations

1 # Deut 32.1; Ps 49.1 Draw near, O nations, to hear;

O peoples, give heed!

Let the earth hear and all that fills it,

the world and all that comes from it.

2 # Isa 13.5; 26.20, 21; 30.25 For the Lord is enraged against all the nations

and furious against all their hordes;

he has doomed them, has given them over for slaughter.

3 # Ezek 14.19; Joel 2.20 Their slain shall be cast out,

and the stench of their corpses shall rise;

the mountains shall flow with their blood.

4 # Ezek 32.7, 8; Joel 2.31; Mt 24.29; 2 Pet 3.10; Rev 6.13, 14 All the host of heaven shall rot away,

and the skies roll up like a scroll.

All their host shall wither

like a leaf withering on a vine

or fruit withering on a fig tree.

5 # Jer 46.10; 49.7; Mal 1.4 When my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens,

upon Edom it will fall,

upon the people I have doomed to judgment.

6 # Isa 63.1; Jer 49.13 The 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.

For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,

a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

7 # Ps 22.21; 68.30; Isa 29.9; 49.26 Wild oxen shall fall with them

and young steers with the mighty bulls.

Their land shall be soaked with blood,

and their soil made rich with fat.

8 # Isa 63.4 For the Lord has a day of vengeance,

a year of vindication for Zion’s cause.#34.8 Or of recompense by Zion’s defender

9 # Deut 29.23 And the streams of Edom#34.9 Heb her streams shall be turned into pitch

and her soil into sulfur;

her land shall become burning pitch.

10 # Isa 66.24; Ezek 29.11; Mal 1.4; Rev 14.11; 19.3 Night and day it shall not be quenched;

its smoke shall go up forever.

From generation to generation it shall lie waste;

no one shall pass through it forever and ever.

11 # 2 Kings 21.13; Isa 14.23; Lam 2.8; Zeph 2.14; Rev 18.2 But the desert owl#34.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain and the screech owl#34.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain shall possess it;

the great owl and the raven shall live in it.

He shall stretch the line of confusion

and the plummet of chaos over it.

12They shall call its nobles No Kingdom There,

and all its princes shall be nothing.

13 # Isa 13.22; 32.13; Jer 9.11; 10.22 Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,

nettles and thistles in its fortresses.

It shall be the haunt of jackals,

an abode for ostriches.

14 # Isa 13.21 Wildcats shall meet with hyenas;

goat-demons shall call to each other;

there also Lilith shall repose

and find a place to rest.

15 # Deut 14.13 There shall the owl nest

and lay and hatch and brood in its shadow;

there also the buzzards shall gather,

each one with its mate.

16 # Isa 30.8; 40.5 Seek and read from the book of the Lord:

Not one of these shall be missing;

none shall be without its mate.

For his mouth, it has commanded,

and his spirit, it has gathered them.

17 # vv 10, 11 ; Jer 13.25He has cast the lot for them;

his hand has portioned it out to them with the line.

[[They shall possess it;

from generation to generation they shall live in it.

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Yeshayah (Isaiah) 34

1Come near, you nations, to hear. And listen, you people! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world and all its offspring.

2For the displeasure of יהוה is against all the nations,#See footnote at Jer. 30:11 and His wrath against all their divisions. He shall put them under the ban, He shall give them over to the slaughter,

3and their slain be thrown out, and their stench rise from their corpses. And mountains shall be melted with their blood.

4And all the host of the heavens shall rot away. And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll, and all their host fade like a leaf fading on the vine, and like the fading one of a fig tree.

5“For My sword shall be drenched in the heavens. Look, it comes down on Eḏom, and on the people of My curse, for judgment.

6“The sword of יהוה shall be filled with blood, it shall be made overflowing with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For יהוה has a slaughtering in Botsrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Eḏom.

7“And wild oxen shall come down with them, and young bulls with bulls. And their land shall be drenched with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.”

8For it is the day of the vengeance of יהוה, the year of recompense for the cause of Tsiyon.

9And its streams shall be turned into tar, and its dust into sulphur, and its land shall become burning tar,

10that is not quenched night or day, its smoke going up forever. From generation to generation it lies waste, no one passes through it forever and ever,

11so that the pelican and the porcupine possess it, also the owl and the raven dwell in it. And He shall stretch out over it the line of formlessness and stones of emptiness.

12Its caves, with no one in them, is called a reign, but all its rulers have vanished.

13And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its strongholds. And it shall be a home for jackals, a courtyard for ostriches.

14And the wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the jackals, and the shaggy goat call to its companion. The night creature shall also settle there, and shall find for herself a place of rest.

15The arrow snake shall nest there, and lay eggs and hatch, and gather them under her shadow. There too the vultures shall gather, each with its mate.

16Search from the book of יהוה, and read: not one of these shall be missing, not one shall be without a mate, for He has commanded my mouth. And His Spirit shall gather them.

17And He shall cast the lot for them, and His hand shall divide it among them with a measuring line – they possess it forever, from generation to generation they dwell in it.

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