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Isaiah 34 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

God’s Wrath against Nations

Isa 34:1

Come near, you nations, to hear; and listen, you peoples!

Let the earth and [fn]all it contains hear, and the world and all that springs from it.

Isa 34:2

For the LORD’S anger is against all the nations,

And His wrath against all their armies.

He has [fn]utterly destroyed them,

He has turned them over to slaughter.

Isa 34:3

So their slain will be thrown 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 heavenly [fn]lights will [fn]wear away,

And the sky will be rolled up like a scroll;

All its [fn]lights 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 has drunk its fill in heaven;

Behold it shall descend for judgment upon Edom,

And upon the people whom I have designated for destruction.

Isa 34:6

The sword of the LORD is filled with blood,

It drips with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,

With the fat of the kidneys of rams.

For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah,

And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Isa 34:7

Wild oxen will also [fn]fall with them

And young bulls with strong ones;

So their land will be soaked with blood,

And their dust [fn]become greasy with fat.

Isa 34:8

For the LORD has a day of vengeance,

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

Isa 34:9

[fn]Its streams will be turned into pitch,

And its loose earth into brimstone,

And its land will become burning pitch.

Isa 34:10

It will not be extinguished night or day;

Its smoke will go up forever.

From generation to generation it will be desolate;

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 [fn]desolation

And the [fn]plumb line of emptiness.

Isa 34:12

Its nobles—there is no one there

Whom they may proclaim king

And all its officials will be nothing.

Isa 34:13

Thorns will come up in its fortified towers,

Weeds and thistles in its fortified cities;

It will also be a haunt of jackals

And a habitat of ostriches.

Isa 34:14

The desert creatures will meet with the [fn]wolves,

The [fn]goat also will cry to its kind.

Yes, the [fn]night-bird will settle there

And will find herself a resting place.

Isa 34:15

The tree snake will make its nest and lay eggs there,

And it will hatch and gather them under its [fn]protection.

Yes, the [fn]hawks will be gathered there,

Every one with its kind.

Isa 34:16

Seek from the book of the LORD, 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 the measuring line.

They shall possess it forever;

From generation to generation they will dwell in it.

NASB20 Footnotes
Lit its fullness
Lit put under the ban
Lit their stench will go up
Lit dissolve
Lit host; i.e., sun, stars, etc.
Lit rot
Lit host; i.e., sun, stars, etc.
Lit go down
Lit made fat
Or controversy
I.e., Edom’s
Or owl; or jackdaw
Or great horned owl
Or formlessness
Lit stones of void
Or howling creatures
Or goat demon
Or a demon; Heb Lilith
Lit shade
Or kites
As in DSS; MT My
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