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Isaiah 34

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¹ You nations, come here and listen; you peoples, pay attention! ⓓ Let the earth and all that fills it hear, 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 stars in the sky ⓙ will dissolve. The sky will roll up like a scroll, ⓚ and its 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 Eagle owls [6] and herons [7] will possess it, and long-eared owls and ravens 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 night birds will stay there and will find a resting place.

¹⁵ Sand partridges [9] will make their nests there; they will lay and hatch their eggs and will gather their broods under their shadows. 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 cast the 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 and all that fills it hear, 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 stars in the sky ⓙ will dissolve. The sky will roll up like a scroll, ⓚ and its 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	Eagle owls [6] and herons [7] will possess it, and long-eared owls and ravens 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 night birds will stay there and will find a resting place.
15	Sand partridges [9] will make their nests there; they will lay and hatch their eggs and will gather their broods under their shadows. 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 cast the 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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