| Isa. 34:1 |
Draw near, O nations, to hear; / And listen, O peoples! / Let the earth and all that fills it hear, / The world and all that springs forth from it. |
| Isa. 34:2 |
For Jehovah's indignation is upon all the nations, / And [His] wrath is upon all their armies; / He has utterly destroyed them; / He has delivered them unto the slaughter. |
| Isa. 34:3 |
Thus their slain are cast away, / And [from] their corpses their stench will come up; / And the mountains will be melted with their blood. |
| Isa. 34:4 |
And all the armies of heaven will be dissolved, / And the heavens will be rolled up like a scroll, / And all their host will wither away, / As the leaf withers from the vine, / Or like a [leaf ] withering from the fig tree. |
| Isa. 34:5 |
For My sword has drunk its fill in heaven. / Now it will descend in judgment upon Edom / And upon the people whom I have devoted to judgment. |
| Isa. 34:6 |
Jehovah's sword is full of blood; / It has fattened itself with fat, / With the blood of lambs and goats, / With the fat of the kidneys of rams; / For Jehovah has a sacrifice in Bozrah / And a great slaughter in the land of Edom. |
| Isa. 34:7 |
Wild oxen will also go down with them, / The young bulls with the bulls; / And their land will drink its fill of [their] blood, / And their dust will become fat with [their] fat. |
| Isa. 34:8 |
For Jehovah has a day of vengeance, / A year of recompense for Zion's contention. |
| Isa. 34:9 |
And its streams will be turned into pitch, / And its dust into brimstone; / And its land will become burning pitch. |
| Isa. 34:10 |
It will not be quenched by night or by day; / Its smoke will go up forever; / It will be desolate from generation to generation; / No one will pass through it forever and ever. |
| Isa. 34:11 |
But the pelican and the porcupine will inherit it, / And the owl and the raven will dwell in it; / And He will stretch over it / The line of nothingness and the plummet weights of emptiness. |
| Isa. 34:12 |
As for its nobles, there is no one there whom they may call to [assume] the / kingdom, / And all its princes will be nothing. |
| Isa. 34:13 |
And thorns will come up in its citadels, / Nettles and thistles in its fortified cities; / And it will be a habitation for jackals, / And an abode for ostriches. |
| Isa. 34:14 |
Desert animals will meet with hyenas; / And the demon will call to his kind, / Indeed there Lilith will settle / And find a resting place for herself. |
| Isa. 34:15 |
There the owl will make its nest and lay eggs, / And hatch [them] and gather [them] under its protection; / Indeed there the vultures will be gathered together, / Each with its kind. |
| Isa. 34:16 |
Seek from the book of Jehovah and read. / Not one of these will be missing; / Not one will lack her mate; / For His mouth has commanded [it,] / And it is His Spirit who has gathered them. |
| Isa. 34:17 |
And He has cast the lot for them, / And His hand has divided it by line unto them; / They will inherit it forever; / From generation to generation they will dwell in it. |