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Isaiah 34 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Isa 34:1Draw near, ye nations; and hearken, ye princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people that are therein.
Isa 34:2For the wrath of the Lord is upon all nations, and his anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter.
Isa 34:3And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their ill savour shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.
Isa 34:4And all the powers of the heavens shall melt, and the sky shall be rolled up like a scroll: and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig-tree.
Isa 34:5My sword has been made drunk in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and with judgment upon the people doomed to destruction.
Isa 34:6The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat, with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bosor, and a great slaughter in Idumea.
Isa 34:7And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the land shall be [fn]soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.
Isa 34:8For it is the day of the judgment of the Lord, and the year of the recompence of Sion in judgment.
Isa 34:9And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;
Isa 34:10and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be made desolate throughout her generations,
Isa 34:11and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and [fn]satyrs shall dwell in it.
Isa 34:12Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed.
Isa 34:13And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strong holds: and they shall be habitations of [fn]monsters, and a court for ostriches.
Isa 34:14And devils shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the other: there shall satyrs rest, having found for themselves a place of rest.
Isa 34:15There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young: there have the deer met, and seen one another's faces.
Isa 34:16They passed by in full number, and not one of them perished: they sought not one another; for the Lord commanded them, and his Spirit gathered them.
Isa 34:17And he shall cast lots for them, and his hand has portioned out their pasture, saying, Ye shall inherit the land for ever: they shall rest on it through all generations.
BES Footnotes
Gr. made drunken.
Vide supra, 13:22.
Vide supra, Job 30:29; Is. 13:21, etc.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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