Isaiah 34:2–8

²The Lord is angry with all the nations;

he is angry with their armies.

He will destroy them and kill them all.

³Their bodies will be thrown outside.

The stink will rise from the bodies,

and the blood will flow down the mountains.

⁴The sun, moon, and stars will dissolve,

and the sky will be rolled up like a scroll.

The stars will fall

like dead leaves from a vine

or dried-up figs from a fig tree.

⁵The Lord’s sword in the sky is covered with blood.

It will cut through Edom

and destroy those people as an offering to the Lord.

⁶The Lord’s sword will be covered with blood;

it will be covered with fat,

with the blood from lambs and goats,

with the fat from the kidneys of sheep.

This is because the Lord decided there will be a sacrifice in Bozrah

and much killing in Edom.

⁷The oxen will be killed,

and the cattle and the strong bulls.

The land will be filled with their blood,

and the dirt will be covered with their fat.

⁸The Lord has chosen a time for punishment.

He has chosen a year when people must pay for the wrongs they did to Jerusalem.