Isa 34 | ABEn | STEP | Lead forward, O nations, and hearken, O rulers! Hear, O earth and the ones [ 2 in 3 it 1 living]; O world, and the people in it!

Isaiah 34

CHAPTER 34 Judgment on the Nations

1 Lead forward, O nations, and hearken, O rulers! Hear, O earth and the ones [²in ³it ¹living]; O world, and the people in it! 2 Because the rage of the lord is upon all the nations, and his anger is upon their number, to destroy them and to deliver them up unto slaughter. 3 And the slain ones of theirs shall be tossed forth, and the dead ones. And [³of them shall ascend ¹the ²scent], and [³shall be rained upon ¹the ²mountains] by their blood. 4 And [⁶shall melt away ¹all ²the ³powers ⁴of the ⁵heavens]. And [³shall coil up ¹the ²heaven] as a scroll, and all the stars shall fall as leaves fall from a grapevine, and as [²fall ¹leaves] from a fig-tree. 5 For [²was intoxicated ¹my sword] in the heaven. Behold, [²upon ³Edom ¹it shall go down], and upon the people of the destruction with judgment. 6 The sword of the lord was filled of blood thickened from the fat of lambs, and from the fat of he-goats and rams; for a sacrifice to God is in Bosor, and [²slaughter ¹a great] in Edom. 7 And [³shall be cast down ¹the ²stout men] with them, and the rams and the bulls. And [³will be intoxicated ¹the ²earth] from the blood, even their embankment; and [²of ³their fat ¹they shall be filled up].

Day of Judgment

8 For it is a day of judgment of the lord, and the year of recompense of judgment of Zion. 9 And [²shall be turned ¹her ravines] into pitch; and her land into sulphur; and [²will be ¹her land ³in ⁵pitch ⁴burning] 10 night and day; and it shall not be extinguished into the eon of time. And [²shall ascend ¹her smoke] upward; unto her generations she shall be made desolate, and for [²time ¹a long] she shall be made desolate. 11 Birds, and hedgehogs, and ibises, and crows shall dwell in her; and [⁴shall be put ⁵upon ⁶her ²cord ¹a surveying ³of desolation]; and satyrs shall live in her. 12 Her rulers will not be; for her kings and her great men will be for destruction. 13 And [³shall grow up ⁴in ⁵their cities ¹thorny ²woods], and also in her fortresses; and they will be properties of sirens, and a courtyard of ostriches. 14 And [²shall meet with ¹demons] satyrs; and they shall yell another to the other; [³there ²shall rest ¹satyrs], for they found for themselves a place of rest. 15 [³there ²shall nest ¹The hedgehog], and [³preserved ¹the ²earth] her children with safety; there stags meet together, and beheld the faces of one another. 16 [²in number ¹They go by], and [²one ³of them ¹not] perished; the other [³the ⁴other ¹did not ²seek]; for the lord gave charge to them, and his spirit gathered them. 17 And he shall cast lots for them, and his hand divided out parts to them to graze. Into the eon of time you shall inherit; for generations of generations shall rest upon it.