Isaiah 34

Legacy Standard Bible

34 Draw near, ^(A)O nations, to hear; and pay attention, O peoples!
^(B)Let the earth hear, as well as its fullness, the world and all that springs from it.
² For the ^(C)indignation of Yahweh is against all the nations,
And His wrath against all their ^[a]hosts;
He has ^[b](D)devoted them to destruction;
He has given them over to ^(E)slaughter.
³ So their slain will be ^(F)cast out,
And their corpses ^[c]will give off their ^(G)stench,
And the mountains will ^[d]be drenched with their ^(H)blood.
⁴ And ^(I)all the host of heaven will rot away,
And the ^(J)sky will be rolled up like a scroll;
All their hosts will also wither away
As a leaf withers from the vine,
Or as one withers from the fig tree.
⁵ For ^(K)My sword is satiated in heaven;
Behold, it shall descend for judgment upon ^(L)Edom
And upon the people whom I have ^(M)devoted to destruction.
⁶ The sword of Yahweh is filled with blood;
It is ^[e]sated with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,
With the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For Yahweh has a sacrifice in ^(N)Bozrah
And a great slaughter in the land of ^(O)Edom.
^7 (P)And wild oxen will also ^[f]fall with them,
And ^(Q)young bulls with strong ones;
Thus their land will be ^(R)soaked with blood,
And their dust ^[g]become greasy with fat.
⁸ For Yahweh has a day of ^(S)vengeance,
A year of recompense for the ^[h]cause of Zion.
^9 [i]And its streams will be turned into pitch,
And its dust into ^(T)brimstone,
And its land will become burning pitch.
¹⁰ It will ^(U)not be quenched night or day;
Its ^(V)smoke will go up forever.
From ^(W)generation to generation it will be laid waste;
^(X)None will pass through it forever and ever.
¹¹ But ^[j](Y)pelican and hedgehog will possess it,
And ^[k]owl and raven will dwell in it;
And He will stretch over it the ^(Z)line of utter formlessness
And the ^[l]plumb line of utter void.
¹² Its nobles—there is ^(AA)no one there
Whom they may proclaim king—
And all its princes will be ^(AB)non-existent.
¹³ And thorns will come up in its ^(AC)fortified towers,
Weeds and thistles in its fortified cities;
It will also be a haunt of ^(AD)jackals
And an abode of ostriches.
¹⁴ And the desert ^(AE)creatures will meet with the ^[m]wolves;
The ^[n](AF)hairy goat also will cry to its kind;
Surely, the ^[o]night creature will obtain relief there
And will find itself a resting place.
¹⁵ The ^[p]owl will make its nest and find its escape there,
And it will hatch its eggs and gather them in its shade.
Surely, ^(AG)the ^[q]falcons will be gathered there,
Every one with its kind.

Not one of these will be missing;
None will lack its mate.
For ^[r](AI)His mouth has commanded,
And His Spirit has gathered them.
¹⁷ He has cast the ^(AJ)lot for them,
And His hand has divided it to them by ^(AK)line.
They shall possess it forever;
From ^(AL)generation to generation they will dwell in it.