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href="../isaiah/33.htm" title="Isaiah 33">◄</a> Isaiah 34 <a href="../isaiah/35.htm" title="Isaiah 35">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/isaiah/34.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Judgment on the Nations</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/34-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Draw near, O nations, to hear,</span><br /><span class="indent">and give attention, O peoples!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Let the earth hear, and all that fills it;</span><br /><span class="indent">the world, and all that comes from it.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/34-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is enraged against all the nations,</span><br /><span class="indent">and furious against all their host;</span><br /><span class="indent">he has devoted them to destruction,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verse 5">a</a></sup></span> has given them over for slaughter.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/34-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Their slain shall be cast out,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the stench of their corpses shall rise;</span><br /><span class="indent">the mountains shall flow with their blood.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/34-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">All the host of heaven shall rot away,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the skies roll up like a scroll.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">All their host shall fall,</span><br /><span class="indent">as leaves fall from the vine,</span><br /><span class="indent">like leaves falling from the fig tree.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/34-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;</span><br /><span class="indent">behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom,</span><br /><span class="indent">upon the people I have devoted to destruction.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/34-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has a sword; it is sated with blood;</span><br /><span class="indent">it is gorged with fat,</span><br /><span class="indent">with the blood of lambs and goats,</span><br /><span class="indent">with the fat of the kidneys of rams.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">For the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has a sacrifice in Bozrah,</span><br /><span class="indent">a great slaughter in the land of Edom.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/34-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Wild oxen shall fall with them,</span><br /><span class="indent">and young steers with the mighty bulls.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Their land shall drink its fill of blood,</span><br /><span class="indent">and their soil shall be gorged with fat.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/34-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has a day of vengeance,</span><br /><span class="indent">a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/34-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And the streams of Edom<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew her streams">b</a></sup></span> shall be turned into pitch,</span><br /><span class="indent">and her soil into sulfur;</span><br /><span class="indent">her land shall become burning pitch.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/34-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Night and day it shall not be quenched;</span><br /><span class="indent">its smoke shall go up forever.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">From generation to generation it shall lie waste;</span><br /><span class="indent">none shall pass through it forever and ever.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/34-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But the hawk and the porcupine<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain">c</a></sup></span> shall possess it,</span><br /><span class="indent">the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">He shall stretch the line of confusion<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew formlessness">d</a></sup></span> over it,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the plumb line of emptiness.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/34-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom,</span><br /><span class="indent">and all its princes shall be nothing.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/34-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,</span><br /><span class="indent">nettles and thistles in its fortresses.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">It shall be the haunt of jackals,</span><br /><span class="indent">an abode for ostriches.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or owls">e</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/34-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And wild animals shall meet with hyenas;</span><br /><span class="indent">the wild goat shall cry to his fellow;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">indeed, there the night bird<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Identity uncertain">f</a></sup></span> settles</span><br /><span class="indent">and finds for herself a resting place.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/34-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">There the owl nests and lays</span><br /><span class="indent">and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">indeed, there the hawks are gathered,</span><br /><span class="indent">each one with her mate.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/34-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Seek and read from the book of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>:</span><br /><span class="indent">Not one of these shall be missing;</span><br /><span class="indent">none shall be without her mate.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">For the mouth of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has commanded,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his Spirit has gathered them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/34-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He has cast the lot for them;</span><br /><span class="indent">his hand has portioned it out to them with the line;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they shall possess it forever;</span><br /><span class="indent">from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> That is, set apart (<span class="catch-word">devoted</span>) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verse 5<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Hebrew <i>her streams</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> The identity of the animals rendered <i class="catch-word">hawk</i> and <i class="catch-word">porcupine</i> is uncertain<br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> Hebrew <i>formlessness</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> Or <i>owls</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Identity uncertain<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 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