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

God's Wrath against Nations

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 34:2

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 34:3

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 34:4

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 34:5

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 34:6

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 34:7

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 34:8

Isa 34:8For it is the day of the judgment of the Lord, and the year of the recompence of Sion in judgment.

Isa 34:9

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 34:10

Isa 34:10and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be made desolate throughout her generations,

Isa 34:11

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 34:12

Isa 34:12Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed.

Isa 34:13

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 34:14

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 34:15

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 34:16

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 34:17

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.