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Isaiah 34
The end of Edom
1 Come near and listen, all you races, pay attention all you nations, listen, earth and all that you hold, world and all that comes from you.
2 Yahweh is angry with all the nations, enraged with all their hordes. He has vowed them into destruction, and marked them down for slaughter.
3 Their dead are thrown into the streets, a stench comes up from their corpses, the mountains run with their blood, the armies of heaven rot.
4 The heavens are rolled up like a scroll and their armies all drop like leaves, like vine leaves falling, like falling fig leaves.
5 For my sword has drunk deep in the heavens… See now how it slashes through Edom, through the people I have condemned to be punished.
6 The sword of Yahweh is gorged with blood, it is glutted with fat, the blood of lambs and goats, the fat of the saddle of rams. For Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 But instead of wild oxen, nations fall, in place of bulls, a race of mighty men. Their land is drenched with blood, its dust is sodden with fat,
8 for this is the day of Yahweh’s vengeance, the year of revenge for the defender of Zion.
9 Its streams turn into pitch, its dust into brimstone, its land becomes blazing pitch…
10 Never quenched night or day, its smoke goes up for ever, it shall lie waste age after age, no one will pass through it.
11 It will be the haunt of pelican and hedgehog, the owl and the raven will live there; over it Yahweh will stretch the measuring line of chaos and the plumbline of emptiness.
12 The satyrs will make their home there, its nobles will be no more, kings will not be proclaimed there, all its princes will be brought to nothing.
13 Thorns will grow in the palaces there, thistles and nettles in its fortresses, it will be a lair for jackals, a lodging for ostriches.
14 Wild cats will meet hyenas there, the satyrs will call to each other, there too will Lilith take cover seeking rest.
15 The viper will nest and lay eggs there, will brood and hatch its eggs; kites will gather there
34:16ab Search in the book of Yahweh, and read, not one of these is missing; for his mouth has ordained it, and his spirit has brought them together.
17 He has drawn lots for the share of each, his hand has divided the land with the line. They shall possess it for ever, and live there age after age.