Isaiah 34
34
The Judgment of the Nations
1You nations, come here and listen;
you peoples, pay attention! # Ps 49:1; Is 1:2; 41:1; 43:9; 45:20
Let the earth hear, and all that fills it,
the world and all that comes from it. # Ps 24:1; Is 6:3; 42:5
2The Lord is angry with all the nations —
furious with all their armies. # Is 13:5; Jr 10:10; 50:13
He will set them apart for destruction, # Jos 6:21; 1Sm 15:3; Is 11:5; 24:1,6; 43:28
giving them over to slaughter.
3Their slain will be thrown out,
and the stench of their corpses will rise; # Is 14:21; 18:6; Ezk 39:17; Jl 2:10; Am 4:10; Rv 19:17-19
the mountains will flow # Or melt, or dissolve with their blood. # Ps 46:2-3
4All # DSS read And the valleys will be split, and all the heavenly bodies # 2Kg 17:16; 21:3,5; 23:4-5 will dissolve.
The skies will roll up like a scroll, # Rv 6:12-14
and their stars will all wither
as leaves wither on the vine,
and foliage on the fig tree. # Ps 102:25-27; Is 13:10; 51:6; Ezk 32:7-8; Jl 3:15; Mt 24:29; Mk 13:24-25; 2Pt 3:10,12
The Judgment of Edom
5When My sword has drunk its fill # DSS read sword will appear # Dt 32:41-43; Jr 46:10; Ezk 21:3-5 in the heavens,
it will then come down on Edom # Nm 20:14-21; Is 63:1; Jr 49:7-8,20; Ezk 25:12-14; 35:1-15; Jl 3:19; Am 1:11-12; Ob 1-14; Mal 1:4
and on the people I have set apart for destruction.
6The Lord’s sword is covered with blood.
It drips with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams. # Is 25:6; 30:32; Jr 46:10; 51:40; Ezk 39:17; Zph 1:7-9
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, # Gn 36:33; Is 63:1; Jr 49:13,22
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7The wild oxen will be struck # Or will go down with them,
and young bulls with the mighty bulls.
Their land will be soaked with # Or will drink its fill of blood,
and their soil will be saturated with fat.
8For the Lord has a day of vengeance, # Is 13:6; 35:4; 47:3; 61:2; 63:4
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.
9Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
her soil into sulfur; # Gn 19:24; Dt 29:23; Ps 11:6; Is 30:33; Ezk 38:22
her land will become burning pitch.
10It will never go out — day or night.
Its smoke will go up forever. # Is 1:31; 66:24; Rv 14:11; 19:3
It will be desolate, from generation to generation;
no one will pass through it forever and ever. # Is 13:20-22; Ezk 29:11; Mal 1:3-4
11The desert owl # Or The pelican and the screech owl # Or the hedgehog will possess it,
and the great owl and the raven will dwell there. # Is 13:21-22; 14:23; Zph 2:14
The Lord will stretch out a measuring line
and a plumb line over her
for her destruction and chaos. # 2Kg 21:13; Is 24:10; Lm 2:8
12No nobles will be left to proclaim a king,
and all her princes will come to nothing.
13Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns;
her fortified cities, with thistles and briers. # Is 32:13
She will become a dwelling for jackals,
an abode # DSS, LXX, Syr, Tg; MT reads jackals, grass for ostriches. # Ps 44:19; Is 13:22; Jr 9:11; 10:22; Mal 1:3
14The desert creatures will meet hyenas,
and one wild goat will call to another.
Indeed, the screech owl will stay there
and will find a resting place for herself.
15The sand partridge # Or The arrow snake, or The owl will make her nest there;
she will lay and hatch her eggs
and will gather her brood under her shadow.
Indeed, the birds of prey will gather there,
each with its mate. # Dt 14:13
16Search and read the scroll of the Lord: # Ps 40:7; 139:16; Is 8:16; 30:8; Dn 7:10; Mal 3:16; Rv 20:12
Not one of them will be missing,
none will be lacking its mate,
because He has ordered it by my # Some Hb mss; other Hb mss, DSS, Syr, Tg read His mouth,
and He will gather them by His Spirit.
17He has ordained a lot for them;
His hand allotted their portion with a measuring line.
They will possess it forever; # Nm 24:18
they will dwell in it from generation to generation.
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Isaiah 34
34
God will Punish his Enemies
1Come, people of all nations! Gather round and listen. Let the whole earth and everyone living on it come here and listen. 2The LORD is angry with all the nations and all their armies. He has condemned them to destruction. 3Their corpses will not be buried, but will lie there rotting and stinking; and the mountains will be red with blood. 4#Mt 24.29; Mk 13.25; Lk 21.26; Rev 6.13–14The sun, moon, and stars will crumble to dust. The sky will disappear like a scroll being rolled up, and the stars will fall like leaves dropping from a vine or a fig tree.
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Is 63.1–6; Jer 49.7–22; Ezek 25.12–14; 35.1–15; Amos 1.11–12; Obad 1.1–14; Mal 1.2–5 The LORD has prepared his sword in heaven, and now it will strike Edom, those people whom he has condemned to destruction. 6His sword will be covered with their blood and fat, like the blood and fat of lambs and goats that are sacrificed. The LORD will offer this sacrifice in the city of Bozrah; he will make this a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 7The people will fall like wild oxen and young bulls, and the earth will be red with blood and covered with fat. 8This is the time when the LORD will rescue Zion and take vengeance on her enemies.
9The rivers of Edom will turn into tar, and the soil will turn into sulphur. The whole country will burn like tar. 10#Rev 14.11; 19.3It will burn day and night, and smoke will rise from it for ever. The land will lie waste age after age, and no one will ever travel through it again. 11Owls and ravens will take over the land. The LORD will make it a barren waste again, as it was before the creation. 12There will be no king to rule the country, and the leaders will all be gone.#34.12 Verse 12 in Hebrew begins with a word, the meaning of which is unclear. 13Thorns and thistles will grow up in all the palaces and walled towns, and jackals and owls will live in them. 14Wild animals will roam there, and demons will call to each other. The night monster#34.14 night monster: A female demon, believed to live in desolate places. will come there looking for a place to rest. 15Owls will build their nests, lay eggs, hatch their young, and care for them there. Vultures will gather there, one after another.
16Search in the LORD's book of living creatures and read what it says. Not one of these creatures will be missing, and not one will be without its mate. The LORD has commanded it to be so; he himself will bring them together. 17It is the LORD who will divide the land among them and give each of them a share. They will live in the land age after age, and it will belong to them for ever.
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