Isa 34:5-15 | ESV | STEP | For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens ; behold , it descends for judgment upon Edom , upon the people I have devoted to destruction .

Isaiah 34:5-15

5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
behold, it descends for judgment upon ^aEdom,
upon the people ^bI have devoted to destruction.
6 The 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.
^cFor the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 ^dWild oxen shall ^efall with them,
and ^fyoung steers with ^gthe mighty bulls.
Their land shall drink its fill of blood,
and their soil shall be gorged with fat.
8 ^hFor the Lord has a day of vengeance,
a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9 ⁱAnd the streams of Edom ^{▼▼Hebrew her streams} shall be turned into pitch,
and her soil into sulfur;
her land shall become burning pitch.
10 Night and day ^kit shall not be quenched;
^lits smoke shall go up forever.
^mFrom generation to generation it shall lie waste;
none shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 ⁿBut the hawk and the porcupine ^{▼▼The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain} shall possess it,
the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
^pHe shall stretch the line of ^qconfusion ^{▼▼Hebrew formlessness} over it,
and the plumb line of emptiness.
12 Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom,
and all its princes shall be nothing.
13 ^sThorns shall grow over its strongholds,
nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of ^tjackals,
an abode for ostriches. ^{▼▼Or owls}
14 ^vAnd wild animals shall meet with hyenas;
the wild goat shall cry to his fellow;
indeed, there the night bird ^{▼▼Identity uncertain} settles
and finds for herself a resting place.
15 There the owl nests and lays
and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow;
indeed, there ^xthe hawks are gathered,
each one with her mate.