Isaiah 34:2-8

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The Lord is angry with all the nations—
furious with all their armies.^(A)
He will set them apart for destruction,^(B)
giving them over to slaughter.

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Their slain will be thrown out,
and the stench of their corpses will rise;^(C)
the mountains will flow^(a) with their blood.^(D)

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All^(b) the heavenly bodies^(E) will dissolve.
The skies will roll up like a scroll,^(F)
and their stars will all wither
as leaves wither on the vine,
and foliage on the fig tree.^(G)

The Judgment of Edom

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When My sword has drunk its fill^(c)^(H) in the heavens,
it will then come down on Edom^(I)
and on the people I have set apart for destruction.

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The Lord’s sword is covered with blood.
It drips with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.^(J)
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,^(K)
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

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The wild oxen will be struck^(d) down with them,
and young bulls with the mighty bulls.
Their land will be soaked with^(e) blood,
and their soil will be saturated with fat.

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For the Lord has a day of vengeance,^(L)
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.

Footnotes:

a. Isaiah 34:3: Or melt, or dissolve

b. Isaiah 34:4: DSS read And the valleys will be split, and all

c. Isaiah 34:5: DSS read sword will appear

d. Isaiah 34:7: Or will go

e. Isaiah 34:7: Or will drink its fill of

Cross references:

A. Isaiah 34:2: Isaiah 13:5; Jeremiah 10:10; Jeremiah 50:13

B. Isaiah 34:2: Joshua 6:21; Isaiah 11:5; Isaiah 24:1; Isaiah 24:6; Isaiah 43:28

C. Isaiah 34:3: Isaiah 14:21; Isaiah 18:6; Ezekiel 39:17; Joel 2:10; Amos 4:10

D. Isaiah 34:3: Psalm 46:2-3

E. Isaiah 34:4: 2 Kings 17:16; 2 Kings 21:3; 2 Kings 21:5; 2 Kings 23:4-5

F. Isaiah 34:4: Revelation 6:12-14

G. Isaiah 34:4: Psalm 102:25-27; Isaiah 13:10; Isaiah 51:6; Ezekiel 32:7-8; Joel 3:15; Matthew 24:29; Mark 13:24-25; 2 Peter 3:10; 2 Peter 3:12

H. Isaiah 34:5: Deuteronomy 32:41-43; Jeremiah 46:10; Ezekiel 21:3-5

I. Isaiah 34:5: Numbers 20:14-21; Isaiah 63:1; Jeremiah 49:7-8; Jeremiah 49:20; Ezekiel 25:12-14; Ezekiel 35:1-15; Joel 3:19; Amos 1:11-12; Obadiah 1:1-14; Malachi 1:4

J. Isaiah 34:6: Isaiah 25:6; Isaiah 30:32; Jeremiah 46:10; Jeremiah 51:40; Ezekiel 39:17

K. Isaiah 34:6: Genesis 36:33; Isaiah 63:1; Jeremiah 49:13; Jeremiah 49:22

L. Isaiah 34:8: Isaiah 13:6; Isaiah 35:4; Isaiah 47:3; Isaiah 61:2; Isaiah 63:4