Isaiah 34:7-9

New Century Version

⁷The oxen will be killed,
and the cattle and the strong bulls.
The land will be filled with their blood,
and the dirt will be covered with their fat.

⁸The Lord has chosen a time for punishment.
    He has chosen a year when people must pay for the wrongs they did to Jerusalem.
⁹Edom’s rivers will be like hot tar.
    Its dirt will be like burning sulfur.
    Its land will be like burning tar.

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Isaiah 34:7-9

New International Version

⁷And the wild oxen^(A) will fall with them,
the bull calves and the great bulls.^(B)
Their land will be drenched with blood,^(C)
and the dust will be soaked with fat.

⁸For the Lord has a day^(D) of vengeance,^(E)
    a year of retribution,^(F) to uphold Zion’s cause.
⁹Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
    her dust into burning sulfur;^(G)
    her land will become blazing pitch!

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Isaiah 34:7-9

King James Version

⁷And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

⁸For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

⁹And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

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