Isaiah 34

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Isaiah 34

God’s Wrath against Nations

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Draw near, ^(A)O nations, to hear; and listen, O peoples!
^(B)Let the earth and ^(a)all it contains hear, and the world and all that springs from it.

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For the Lord’s ^(C)indignation is against all the nations,
And His wrath against all their armies;
He has ^(b)^(D)utterly destroyed them,
He has given them over to ^(E)slaughter.

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So their slain will be ^(F)thrown out,
And their corpses ^(c)will give off their ^(G)stench,
And the mountains will ^(d)be drenched with their ^(H)blood.

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And ^(I)all the host of heaven will ^(e)wear away,
And the ^(J)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.

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For ^(K)My sword is satiated in heaven,
Behold it shall descend for judgment upon ^(L)Edom
And upon the people whom I have ^(M)devoted to destruction.

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The sword of the Lord is filled with blood,
It is ^(f)sated with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,
With the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice in ^(N)Bozrah
And a great slaughter in the land of ^(O)Edom.

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^(P)Wild oxen will also ^(g)fall with them
And ^(Q)young bulls with strong ones;
Thus their land will be ^(R)soaked with blood,
And their dust ^(h)become greasy with fat.

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For the Lord has a day of ^(S)vengeance,
A year of recompense for the ⁽ⁱ⁾cause of Zion.

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^(j)Its streams will be turned into pitch,
And its loose earth into ^(T)brimstone,
And its land will become burning pitch.

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It will ^(U)not be quenched night or day;
Its ^(V)smoke will go up forever.
From ^(W)generation to generation it will be desolate;
^(X)None will pass through it forever and ever.

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But ^(k)^(Y)pelican and hedgehog will possess it,
And ^(l)owl and raven will dwell in it;
And He will stretch over it the ^(Z)line of ^(m)desolation
And the ⁽ⁿ⁾plumb line of emptiness.

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Its nobles—there is ^(AA)no one there
Whom they may proclaim king—
And all its princes will be ^(AB)nothing.

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Thorns will come up in its ^(AC)fortified towers,
Nettles and thistles in its fortified cities;
It will also be a haunt of ^(AD)jackals
And an abode of ostriches.

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The desert ^(AE)creatures will meet with the ^(o)wolves,
The ^(p)^(AF)hairy goat also will cry to its kind;
Yes, the ^(q)night monster will settle there
And will find herself a resting place.

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The tree snake will make its nest and lay eggs there,
And it will hatch and gather them under its ^(r)protection.
Yes, ^(AG)the ^(s)hawks will be gathered there,
Every one with its kind.

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Not one of these will be missing;
None will lack its mate.
For ^(t)^(AI)His mouth has commanded,
And His Spirit has gathered them.

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He has cast the ^(AJ)lot for them,
And His hand has divided it to them by ^(AK)line.
They shall possess it forever;
From ^(AL)generation to generation they will dwell in it.

Footnotes:

a. Isaiah 34:1: ['Lit ', its fullness]

b. Isaiah 34:2: ['Lit ', put under the ban]

c. Isaiah 34:3: ['Lit ', their stench will go up]

d. Isaiah 34:3: ['Lit ', dissolve]

e. Isaiah 34:4: ['Lit ', rot]

f. Isaiah 34:6: ['Lit ', made fat]

g. Isaiah 34:7: ['Lit ', go down]

h. Isaiah 34:7: ['Lit ', made fat]

i. Isaiah 34:8: ['Or ', controversy]

j. Isaiah 34:9: ['I.e. Edom’s']

k. Isaiah 34:11: ['Or ', owl, ' or ', jackdaw]

l. Isaiah 34:11: ['Or ', great horned owl]

m. Isaiah 34:11: ['Or ', formlessness]

n. Isaiah 34:11: ['Lit ', stones of void]

o. Isaiah 34:14: ['Or ', howling creatures]

p. Isaiah 34:14: ['Or ', demon]

q. Isaiah 34:14: ['Heb ', Lilith]

r. Isaiah 34:15: ['Lit ', shade]

s. Isaiah 34:15: ['Or ', kites]

t. Isaiah 34:16: ['So DSS; M.T. ', My]

Cross references:

A. Isaiah 34:1: Psalm 49:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 43:9

B. Isaiah 34:1: Deuteronomy 32:1; Isaiah 1:2

C. Isaiah 34:2: Isaiah 26:20

D. Isaiah 34:2: Isaiah 13:5; Isaiah 24:1

E. Isaiah 34:2: Isaiah 30:25; Isaiah 63:6; Isaiah 65:12

F. Isaiah 34:3: Isaiah 14:19

G. Isaiah 34:3: Joel 2:20; Amos 4:10

H. Isaiah 34:3: Ezekiel 14:19; Ezekiel 35:6; Ezekiel 38:22

I. Isaiah 34:4: Isaiah 13:13; Isaiah 51:6; Ezekiel 32:7; Ezekiel 32:8; Joel 2:31; Matthew 24:29; 2 Peter 3:10

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

K. Isaiah 34:5: Deuteronomy 32:41; Deuteronomy 32:42; Jeremiah 46:10; Ezekiel 21:3-5

L. Isaiah 34:5: Isaiah 63:1; Jeremiah 49:7; Jeremiah 49:8; Jeremiah 49:20; Ezekiel 25:12-14; Ezekiel 35:1-15; Amos 1:11; Amos 1:12; Obadiah 1:1-14; Malachi 1:4

M. Isaiah 34:5: Isaiah 24:6; Isaiah 43:28

N. Isaiah 34:6: Isaiah 63:1; Jeremiah 49:13

O. Isaiah 34:6: Isaiah 63:1

P. Isaiah 34:7: Numbers 23:22; Psalm 22:21

Q. Isaiah 34:7: Psalm 68:30; Jeremiah 50:27

R. Isaiah 34:7: Isaiah 63:6

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

T. Isaiah 34:9: Deuteronomy 29:23; Psalm 11:6; Isaiah 30:33

U. Isaiah 34:10: Isaiah 1:31; Isaiah 66:24

V. Isaiah 34:10: Revelation 14:11; Revelation 19:3

W. Isaiah 34:10: Isaiah 13:20-22; Isaiah 24:1; Isaiah 34:10-15; Malachi 1:3; Malachi 1:4

X. Isaiah 34:10: Ezekiel 29:11

Y. Isaiah 34:11: Zephaniah 2:14

Z. Isaiah 34:11: Isaiah 24:10; Lamentations 2:8

AA. Isaiah 34:12: Jeremiah 27:20; Jeremiah 39:6

AB. Isaiah 34:12: Isaiah 41:11; Isaiah 41:12

AC. Isaiah 34:13: Isaiah 13:22; Isaiah 25:2; Isaiah 32:13

AD. Isaiah 34:13: Psalm 44:19; Jeremiah 9:11; Jeremiah 10:22

AE. Isaiah 34:14: Isaiah 13:21

AF. Isaiah 34:14: Isaiah 13:21

AG. Isaiah 34:15: Deuteronomy 14:13

AH. Isaiah 34:16: Isaiah 30:8

AI. Isaiah 34:16: Isaiah 1:20; Isaiah 40:5; Isaiah 58:14

AJ. Isaiah 34:17: Isaiah 17:13; Isaiah 17:14; Jeremiah 13:25

AK. Isaiah 34:17: Isaiah 34:11

AL. Isaiah 34:17: Isaiah 34:10