The Book of Isaiah
34: 1Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear,
and the fulness thereof; the world, and all things that come forth from it. 34:2For
Jehovah hath indignation against all the nations, and wrath against all their host:
he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. 34:3Their
slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and
the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 34:4And all the host of heaven shall
be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host
shall fade away, as the leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as a fading leaf from the
fig-tree. 34:5For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it shall come down
upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 34:6The sword of
Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs
and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in
Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 34:7And the wild-oxen shall
come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be
drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. 34:8For Jehovah hath a
day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. 34:9And the streams
of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the
land thereof shall become burning pitch. 34:10It shall not be quenched night nor day;
the smoke thereof shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie
waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. 34:11But the pelican and the
porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he
will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness. 34:12They
shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its
princes shall be nothing. 34:13And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and
thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for
ostriches. 34:14And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the
wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and
shall find her a place of rest. 34:15There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay,
and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every
one with her mate. 34:16Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one of
these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath
commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them. 34:17And he hath cast the lot for
them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for
ever; from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.