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The Lord's Vengeance on the Nations (Edom)

Isaiah 34:1-17

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Chapter 34
1 Draw near, nations, to hear, and peoples, attend! Listen, Earth, and let the inhabited world and all its offspring fill up! 2 For the LORD is furious against all the nations and has raged against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction, he has given them to the slaughter. 3 And they will throw out their profaned ones, and their corpses will go up in their fire, and the mountains will melt from their blood. 4 And all the host of the heavens will waste away and be rolled up like a scroll of the heavens, and all their host will wither like a leaf withering from a vine and like a shriveled fig from a fig tree. 5 For my sword has been bathed in heaven. Behold, it will descend upon Edom and upon the people of my ban for judgment. 6 A sword for the LORD, filled with blood of the fattened one, from fatness of blood of rams and choice animals, from fatness of kidneys of rams. For a sacrifice for the LORD in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 7 And wild oxen will go down with them, and bulls with the mighty ones, and their land will be soaked with blood, and their dust will be enriched with fat. 8 for a day of vengeance for the LORD, a year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion. 9 And its streams were turned to pitch, and its dust to sulfur, and its earth became burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night and day forever; its smoke shall go up from generation to generation; it shall be cut off forever, everlastings; there is no transgression in it. 11 And the pelican and the hedgehog will inherit her, and the owl and the raven will dwell in her, and he will stretch over her a line of tohu and stones of bohu. 12 Her desolation, and there is no kingdom there. They will call, and all her Seraiah will be nothing. 13 And her palaces will ascend with thorns, brambles, Chemosh, and thistles in her fortresses; and it will become a habitation of jackals, a courtyard for daughters of ostrich. 14 And wild goats will meet with the isles, and a satyr will call to its companion; only there the night creature has found rest for her. 15 There the arrow-snake nests, and the darting bird lays eggs and hatches them and broods in her shadow—only there the screech owls gather, each with her companion. 16 Seek from upon the book of the LORD and read: not one from them is missing; its mate has not been neglected, for his mouth has commanded and his spirit he gathers. 17 And he cast a lot for them, and his hand divided it for them with a line; until eternity they shall possess it, generation after generation they shall dwell in it.