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Isaiah 34

Holman Christian Standard Bible, 2009 (HCSB)

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¹ You nations, come here and listen; you peoples, pay attention! ⓐ Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that comes from it. ⓑ

² The LORD is angry with all the nations — furious with all their armies. ⓒ He will set them apart for destruction, ⓓ giving them over to slaughter.

³ Their slain will be thrown out, and the stench of their corpses will rise; ⓔ the mountains will flow [1] with their blood. ⓕ

⁴ All [2] the heavenly bodies ⓖ will dissolve. The skies will roll up like a scroll, ⓗ and their stars will all wither as leaves wither on the vine, and foliage on the fig tree. ⓘ

⁵ When My sword has drunk its fill [3] ⓙ in the heavens, it will then come down on Edom ⓚ and on the people I have set apart for destruction.

⁶ The 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. ⓛ For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, ⓜ a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

⁷ The wild oxen will be struck [4] down with them, and young bulls with the mighty bulls. Their land will be soaked with [5] blood, and their soil will be saturated with fat.

⁸ For the LORD has a day of vengeance, ⓝ a time of paying back Edom for its hostility against Zion.

⁹ Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch, her soil into sulfur; ⓞ her land will become burning pitch.

¹⁰ It will never go out — day or night. Its smoke will go up forever. ⓟ It will be desolate, from generation to generation; no one will pass through it forever and ever. ⓠ

¹¹ The desert owl [6] and the screech owl [7] will possess it, and the great owl and the raven will dwell there. ⓡ The LORD will stretch out a measuring line and a plumb line over her for her destruction and chaos. ⓢ

¹² No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing.

¹³ Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns; her fortified cities, with thistles and briers. ⓣ She will become a dwelling for jackals, an abode [8] for ostriches. ⓤ

¹⁴ The 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.

¹⁵ The sand partridge [9] 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. ⓥ

¹⁶ Search and read the scroll of the LORD: ⓦ Not one of them will be missing, none will be lacking its mate, because He has ordered it by my [10] mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.

¹⁷ He has ordained a lot for them; His hand allotted their portion with a measuring line. They will possess it forever; ⓧ they will dwell in it from generation to generation.

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1	You nations, come here and listen; you peoples, pay attention! ⓐ Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that comes from it. ⓑ
2	The LORD is angry with all the nations — furious with all their armies. ⓒ He will set them apart for destruction, ⓓ giving them over to slaughter.
3	Their slain will be thrown out, and the stench of their corpses will rise; ⓔ the mountains will flow [1] with their blood. ⓕ
4	All [2] the heavenly bodies ⓖ will dissolve. The skies will roll up like a scroll, ⓗ and their stars will all wither as leaves wither on the vine, and foliage on the fig tree. ⓘ
5	When My sword has drunk its fill [3] ⓙ in the heavens, it will then come down on Edom ⓚ and on the people I have set apart for destruction.
6	The 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. ⓛ For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, ⓜ a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7	The wild oxen will be struck [4] down with them, and young bulls with the mighty bulls. Their land will be soaked with [5] blood, and their soil will be saturated with fat.
8	For the LORD has a day of vengeance, ⓝ a time of paying back Edom for its hostility against Zion.
9	Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch, her soil into sulfur; ⓞ her land will become burning pitch.
10	It will never go out — day or night. Its smoke will go up forever. ⓟ It will be desolate, from generation to generation; no one will pass through it forever and ever. ⓠ
11	The desert owl [6] and the screech owl [7] will possess it, and the great owl and the raven will dwell there. ⓡ The LORD will stretch out a measuring line and a plumb line over her for her destruction and chaos. ⓢ
12	No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing.
13	Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns; her fortified cities, with thistles and briers. ⓣ She will become a dwelling for jackals, an abode [8] for ostriches. ⓤ
14	The 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.
15	The sand partridge [9] 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. ⓥ
16	Search and read the scroll of the LORD: ⓦ Not one of them will be missing, none will be lacking its mate, because He has ordered it by my [10] mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.
17	He has ordained a lot for them; His hand allotted their portion with a measuring line. They will possess it forever; ⓧ they will dwell in it from generation to generation.

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^{Isaiah 34:2 [68]} The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the LORD, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 5.

^{Isaiah 34:11 [69]} The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.

^{Isaiah 34:11 [70]} The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.

^{Isaiah 34:11 [71]} The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.

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