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Isaiah 34:2-8
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Isaiah 34:2-8
Holman Christian Standard Bible
2 The Lord is angry with all the nations—
furious with all their armies.(A)
He will set them apart for destruction,(B)
giving them over to slaughter.
3 Their slain will be thrown out,
and the stench of their corpses will rise;(C)
the mountains will flow[a] with their blood.(D)
4 All[b] the heavenly bodies(E) will dissolve.
The skies will roll up like a scroll,(F)
and their stars will all wither
as leaves wither on the vine,
and foliage on the fig tree.(G)
The Judgment of Edom
5 When My sword has drunk its fill[c](H) in the heavens,
it will then come down on Edom(I)
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.(J)
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,(K)
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 The wild oxen will be struck[d] down with them,
and young bulls with the mighty bulls.
Their land will be soaked with[e] blood,
and their soil will be saturated with fat.
8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance,(L)
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 34:3 Or melt, or dissolve
- Isaiah 34:4 DSS read And the valleys will be split, and all
- Isaiah 34:5 DSS read sword will appear
- Isaiah 34:7 Or will go
- Isaiah 34:7 Or will drink its fill of
Isaiah 34:2-8
New International Version
Isaiah 34:2-8
New International Version
2 The Lord is angry with all nations;
his wrath(A) is on all their armies.
He will totally destroy[a](B) them,
he will give them over to slaughter.(C)
3 Their slain(D) will be thrown out,
their dead bodies(E) will stink;(F)
the mountains will be soaked with their blood.(G)
4 All the stars in the sky will be dissolved(H)
and the heavens rolled up(I) like a scroll;
all the starry host will fall(J)
like withered(K) leaves from the vine,
like shriveled figs from the fig tree.
5 My sword(L) has drunk its fill in the heavens;
see, it descends in judgment on Edom,(M)
the people I have totally destroyed.(N)
6 The sword(O) of the Lord is bathed in blood,
it is covered with fat—
the blood of lambs and goats,
fat from the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice(P) in Bozrah(Q)
and a great slaughter(R) in the land of Edom.
7 And the wild oxen(S) will fall with them,
the bull calves and the great bulls.(T)
Their land will be drenched with blood,(U)
and the dust will be soaked with fat.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 34:2 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.
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