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Isaiah 34 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Yahweh’s Wrath Against the Nations

Isa 34:1

Draw near, O nations, to hear; and pay attention, O peoples!

Let the earth hear, as well as its fullness, the world and all that springs from it.

Isa 34:2

For the indignation of Yahweh is against all the nations,

And His wrath against all their [fn]hosts;

He has [fn]devoted them to destruction;

He has given them over to slaughter.

Isa 34:3

So their slain will be cast out,

And their corpses [fn]will give off their stench,

And the mountains will [fn]be drenched with their blood.

Isa 34:4

And all the host of heaven will rot away,

And the 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.

Isa 34:5

For My sword is satiated in heaven;

Behold, it shall descend for judgment upon Edom

And upon the people whom I have devoted to destruction.

Isa 34:6

The sword of Yahweh is filled with blood;

It is [fn]sated with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,

With the fat of the kidneys of rams.

For Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah

And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Isa 34:7

And wild oxen will also [fn]fall with them,

And young bulls with strong ones;

Thus their land will be soaked with blood,

And their dust [fn]become greasy with fat.

Isa 34:8

For Yahweh has a day of vengeance,

A year of recompense for the [fn]cause of Zion.

Isa 34:9

[fn]And its streams will be turned into pitch,

And its dust into brimstone,

And its land will become burning pitch.

Isa 34:10

It will not be quenched night or day;

Its smoke will go up forever.

From generation to generation it will be laid waste;

None will pass through it forever and ever.

Isa 34:11

But [fn]pelican and hedgehog will possess it,

And [fn]owl and raven will dwell in it;

And He will stretch over it the line of utter formlessness

And the [fn]plumb line of utter void.

Isa 34:12

Its nobles—there is no one there

Whom they may proclaim king

And all its princes will be non-existent.

Isa 34:13

And thorns will come up in its fortified towers,

Weeds and thistles in its fortified cities;

It will also be a haunt of jackals

And an abode of ostriches.

Isa 34:14

And the desert creatures will meet with the [fn]wolves;

The [fn]hairy goat also will cry to its kind;

Surely, the [fn]night creature will obtain relief there

And will find itself a resting place.

Isa 34:15

The [fn]owl will make its nest and find its escape there,

And it will hatch its eggs and gather them in its shade.

Surely, the [fn]falcons will be gathered there,

Every one with its kind.

Isa 34:16

Seek from the book of Yahweh, and read:

Not one of these will be missing;

None will lack its mate.

For [fn]His mouth has commanded,

And His Spirit has gathered them.

Isa 34:17

He has cast the lot for them,

And His hand has divided it to them by line.

They shall possess it forever;

From generation to generation they will dwell in it.

LSB Footnotes
Lit host
Or put them under the ban
Lit their stench will go up
Lit dissolve
Lit made fat
Lit go down
Lit made fat
Or controversy
Edom’s
Or owl, jackdaw
Or great horned owl
Lit stones of void
Or howling creatures
Or goat demon
Heb Lilith
Or tree snake
Or hawks
As in DSS; M.T. My
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