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New Testament
Isaiah 34
Judgment Against the Nations
341Come near, you nations, and hear!
Listen, you peoples.
Let the earth and everything in it hear,
the world and everything that it produces.
2The Lord is angry with all the nations,
and he is furious with all their armies.
He has condemned them to destruction.
He has handed them over for slaughter.
3Their fallen bodies will lie unburied,
and the stench of their corpses will linger.
The mountains will flow with their blood.
4The whole army of the heavens will fall apart.
The sky will be rolled up like a scroll,
and its whole army will waste away and fall,
like leaves withering on a vine,
like fruit that falls from a fig tree.
5Yes, my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens.
Now it will fall on Edom,
on the people I have sentenced to judgment.
6The sword of the Lord is covered with blood.
It is coated with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat from the kidneys of rams,
for the Lord has made a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a massive slaughter in the land of Edom.
7Wild oxen will fall along with them,
bull calves and powerful bulls.
Their land will be soaked with blood,
and their dust will be saturated with fat.
8It will be a day of vengeance for the Lord,
9Edom's streams will be turned into pitch,
its dust into sulfur,
and its land will become burning pitch,
10which will not be extinguished night or day.
Its smoke will go up forever.
Generation after generation, it will lie in ruins.
No one will ever pass through it. Never again!
The screech owl and the raven will nest there.
God will stretch a measuring line for chaos over Edom,
12There will be nothing left for its nobles to call a kingdom.
All its officials will be gone.
13Thorns will cover its citadels.
Thistles and briers will overgrow its fortresses.
It will be a den of jackals,
a haunt for ostriches.
14Desert animals and hyenas will gather,
and find a resting place.
She will lay eggs, hatch them,
and gather her young under her shade.
Falcons will gather there too,
each with its mate.
16Search through the book of the Lord, and read.
Not one of them will be missing.
Not one will lack her mate.
For his mouth has commanded this,
and his Spirit has gathered them together.
17He has allotted this land for these creatures.
His hand has divided it up for them with a surveying line.
They will possess it forever.
They will live there generation after generation.
Footnotes
- 34:8 Or a time of retribution for the Defender of Zion
- 34:11 The precise identification of these animals and other animals in this section is uncertain. The word translated porcupine may be another type of owl.
- 34:11 The words translated chaos and uninhabited ruins are the same words that describe the undeveloped, empty world on the first day of creation.
- 34:14 The term translated wild goats later became associated with satyrs and demons, but here it seems to refer to regular animals.
- 34:14 Hebrew lilith. In later Jewish writing this term became the name of a female demon.
- 34:15 Or the arrow snake. The meaning of the Hebrew term is uncertain.