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Isaiah 34 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

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A Message for the Nations

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:1 - Come here and listen, O nations of the earth.
Let the world and everything in it hear my words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:2 - For the LORD is enraged against the nations.
His fury is against all their armies.
He will completely destroy[fn] them,
dooming them to slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:3 - Their dead will be left unburied,
and the stench of rotting bodies will fill the land.
The mountains will flow with their blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:4 - The heavens above will melt away
and disappear like a rolled-up scroll.
The stars will fall from the sky
like withered leaves from a grapevine,
or shriveled figs from a fig tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:5 - And when my sword has finished its work in the heavens,
it will fall upon Edom,
the nation I have marked for destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:6 - The sword of the LORD is drenched with blood
and covered with fat—
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of rams prepared for sacrifice.
Yes, the LORD will offer a sacrifice in the city of Bozrah.
He will make a mighty slaughter in Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:7 - Even men as strong as wild oxen will die—
the young men alongside the veterans.
The land will be soaked with blood
and the soil enriched with fat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:8 - For it is the day of the LORD’s revenge,
the year when Edom will be paid back for all it did to Israel.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:9 - The streams of Edom will be filled with burning pitch,
and the ground will be covered with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:10 - This judgment on Edom will never end;
the smoke of its burning will rise forever.
The land will lie deserted from generation to generation.
No one will live there anymore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:11 - It will be haunted by the desert owl and the screech owl,
the great owl and the raven.[fn]
For God will measure that land carefully;
he will measure it for chaos and destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:12 - It will be called the Land of Nothing,
and all its nobles will soon be gone.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:13 - Thorns will overrun its palaces;
nettles and thistles will grow in its forts.
The ruins will become a haunt for jackals
and a home for owls.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:14 - Desert animals will mingle there with hyenas,
their howls filling the night.
Wild goats will bleat at one another among the ruins,
and night creatures[fn] will come there to rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:15 - There the owl will make her nest and lay her eggs.
She will hatch her young and cover them with her wings.
And the buzzards will come,
each one with its mate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:16 - Search the book of the LORD,
and see what he will do.
Not one of these birds and animals will be missing,
and none will lack a mate,
for the LORD has promised this.
His Spirit will make it all come true.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:17 - He has surveyed and divided the land
and deeded it over to those creatures.
They will possess it forever,
from generation to generation.
See the NLT Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NLT Footnotes
The Hebrew term used here refers to the complete consecration of things or people to the LORD, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering; similarly in 34:5.
Hebrew to Zion.
The identification of some of these birds is uncertain.
The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
Hebrew Lilith, possibly a reference to a mythical demon of the night.
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Isaiah Chapter 34 — Additional Translations:

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