Isaías 34

¹ Come near, ye Gentiles, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples; let the earth hear, and all that is therein, the world and all things that come forth of it.

² For the indignation of the LORD [is] upon all the Gentiles, and [his] fury upon the entire army of them; he shall destroy them and deliver them to the slaughter.

³ Their slain shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

⁴ And all the host of heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fall down as the leaf falls off from the vine and as the [leaf] falls from the fig tree.

⁵ For in the heavens my sword shall become drunk; behold, it shall come down in judgment upon Idumea [or Edom] and upon the people of my anathema.

⁶ The sword of the LORD is filled with blood; it is made fat with fatness [and] 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 Idumea.

⁷ And the unicorns shall fall with them, and the bulls with the calves; and their land shall become drunk with blood, and their dust shall be greased with fatness.

⁸ For [it shall be] the day of the LORD'S vengeance [and] the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.

⁹ And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into sulphur, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

¹⁰ It shall not be quenched night nor day; its smoke shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; no one shall pass through it for ever and ever.

¹¹ But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it; and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the level of desolation.

¹² They shall call the princes thereof, princes without a kingdom; and all her great ones shall be nothing.

¹³ And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of dragons [and] a court for young owls.

¹⁴ The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl shall have his seat there and find for himself a place of rest.

¹⁵ There shall the great owl make his nest and conserve [his eggs] and hatch his young and gather them under his wings; there shall the vultures also be gathered, each one with his mate.

¹⁶ Seek ye out [that which is written in] the book of the LORD and read; if one of these is lacking, none is missing with his mate, for his mouth has commanded it, and his same Spirit has gathered them.

¹⁷ And he has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it unto them by line; therefore they shall have it as an inheritance for ever; from generation to generation they shall dwell therein.: