Isaiah 34 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

God's Wrath against Nations

Isa 34:1Draw near, O nations, to hear, and hearken, O peoples! Let the earth listen, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes from it.

Isa 34:2

Isa 34:2For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host, he has doomed them, has given them over for slaughter.

Isa 34:3

Isa 34:3Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood.

Isa 34:4

Isa 34:4All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree.

Isa 34:5

Isa 34:5For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have doomed.

Isa 34:6

Isa 34:6The LORD has a sword; it is sated with blood, it is gorged 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, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

Isa 34:7

Isa 34:7Wild oxen shall fall with them, and young steers with the mighty bulls. Their land shall be soaked with blood, and their soil made rich with fat.

Isa 34:8

Isa 34:8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

Isa 34:9

Isa 34:9And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into brimstone; her land shall become burning pitch.

Isa 34:10

Isa 34:10Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up for ever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

Isa 34:11

Isa 34:11But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plummet of chaos over its nobles.

Isa 34:12

Isa 34:12They shall name it No Kingdom There, and all its princes shall be nothing.

Isa 34:13

Isa 34:13Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.

Isa 34:14

Isa 34:14And wild beasts shall meet with hyenas, the satyr shall cry to his fellow; yea, there shall the night hag alight, and find for herself a resting place.

Isa 34:15

Isa 34:15There shall the owl nest and lay and hatch and gather her young in her shadow; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, each one with her mate.

Isa 34:16

Isa 34:16Seek and read from the book of the LORD: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the LORD has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

Isa 34:17

Isa 34:17He has cast the lot for them, his hand has portioned it out to them with the line; they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.

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Isaiah 34 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

God's Wrath against Nations

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