Isaiah 34

34^aCome near, ye nations, to hear;

And hearken, ye people:

^bLet the earth hear, and ^†all that is therein;

The world, and all ^cthings that come forth of it.

²For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations,

And his fury upon all their armies:

He hath ^outterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

³Their slain also shall be cast out,

And ^dtheir stink shall come up out of their carcases,

And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

⁴And ^efall the host of heaven shall be dissolved,

And ^gthe heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll:

And ^hall their host shall fall down,

As ⁱthe leaf falleth off from the vine,

And ^fas a falling fig from the fig tree.

⁵For ^kmy sword shall be ^lbathed in heaven:

Behold, ^mit shall come down upon ⁿIdumea,

And upon the people of my ^ocurse, to judgment.

^6kThe 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 ^pthe Lord hath a sacrifice in ^qBozrah,

And a great slaughter in the land of ⁿIdumea.

⁷And the ^||runicorns shall come down with them,

And ^sthe bullocks with ^sthe bulls;

And their land shall be ^||soaked with blood,

And their dust made fat with fatness.

⁸For it is ^tthe day of the Lord’s vengeance,

And the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

⁹And ^uthe streams thereof shall be turned into pitch,

And the dust thereof into brimstone,

And the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

¹⁰It shall not be quenched night nor day;

^vThe smoke thereof shall go up for ever:

^wFrom generation to generation it shall lie waste;

None shall pass through it for ever and ever.

^11xBut the ^||cormorant and ^ythe bittern shall possess it;

^zThe owl also and the raven shall dwell in it:

And ^ahe shall stretch out upon it the line of ^bcconfusion, and ^dthe stones of ^cemptiness.

¹²They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there,

And all her princes shall be nothing.

¹³And ^ethorns shall come up in her palaces,

^fNettles and ^fbrambles in the fortresses thereof:

And ^xit shall be ^gan habitation of ^hdragons,

And ⁱa court for ^||†owls.

^14†The ^xjwild beasts of the desert shall also meet with ^†the wild beasts of the island,

And ⁱthe satyr shall cry to his fellow;

The ^||screech owl also ^jjshall rest there,

And find for herself a place of rest.

^15xThere shall the great owl make her nest, and lay,

And hatch, and ^kgather under her shadow:

There shall ^lthe vultures also be gathered,

Every one with her mate.

^16mSeek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read:

No one of these shall ⁿfail,

None shall ^owant her mate:

For my mouth it hath commanded,

And his spirit it hath gathered them.

¹⁷And he hath cast the lot for them,

And his hand hath divided it unto them by line:

^pThey shall possess it for ever,

From generation to generation shall they dwell therein.