Isaiah 34

¹Draw near, O nations, to hear; and listen, O peoples!
Let the earth and ^[a]all it contains hear, and the world and all that springs from it.
² For the Lord’s indignation is against all the nations,
And His wrath against all their armies;
He has ^[b]utterly destroyed them,
He has given them over to slaughter.
³ So their slain will be thrown out,
And their corpses ^[c]will give off their stench,
And the mountains will ^[d]be drenched with their blood.
⁴ And all the host of heaven will ^[e]wear away,
And the 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.
⁵ For My sword is satiated in heaven,
Behold it shall descend for judgment upon Edom
And upon the people whom I have devoted to destruction.
⁶ 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 Bozrah
And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
⁷ Wild oxen will also ^[g]fall with them
And young bulls with strong ones;
Thus their land will be soaked with blood,
And their dust ^[h]become greasy with fat.
⁸ For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
A year of recompense for the ^[i]cause of Zion.
^9 [j]Its streams will be turned into pitch,
And its loose earth into brimstone,
And its land will become burning pitch.
¹⁰ It will not be quenched night or day;
Its smoke will go up forever.
From generation to generation it will be desolate;
None will pass through it forever and ever.
¹¹ But ^[k]pelican and hedgehog will possess it,
And ^[l]owl and raven will dwell in it;
And He will stretch over it the line of ^[m]desolation
And the ^[n]plumb line of emptiness.
¹² Its nobles—there is no one there
Whom they may proclaim king—
And all its princes will be nothing.
¹³ Thorns will come up in its fortified towers,
Nettles and thistles in its fortified cities;
It will also be a haunt of jackals
And an abode of ostriches.
¹⁴ The desert creatures will meet with the ^[o]wolves,
The ^[p]hairy goat also will cry to its kind;
Yes, the ^[q]night monster will settle there
And will find herself a resting place.
¹⁵ The tree snake will make its nest and lay eggs there,
And it will hatch and gather them under its ^[r]protection.
Yes, the ^[s]hawks will be gathered there,
Every one with its kind.

Not one of these will be missing;
None will lack its mate.
For ^[t]His mouth has commanded,
And His Spirit has gathered them.
¹⁷ He has cast the lot for them,
And His hand has divided it to them by line.
They shall possess it forever;
From generation to generation they will dwell in it.