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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a 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">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Judgment on the Nations</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Draw near, O nations, to hear;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">O peoples, give heed!</span></span><br /><span class="text">Let the earth hear, and all that fills it;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the world, and all that comes from it.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> is enraged against all the nations,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and furious against all their hordes;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">he has doomed them, has given them over for slaughter.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Their slain shall be cast out,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the stench of their corpses shall rise;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the mountains shall flow with their blood.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>All the host of heaven shall rot away,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the skies roll up like a scroll.</span></span><br /><span class="text">All their host shall wither</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">like a leaf withering on a vine,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or fruit withering on a fig tree.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>When my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">lo, it will descend upon Edom,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">upon the people I have doomed to judgment.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has a sword; it is sated with blood,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">it is gorged with fat,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">with the blood of lambs and goats,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">with the fat of the kidneys of rams.</span></span><br /><span class="text">For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has a sacrifice in Bozrah,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">a great slaughter in the land of Edom.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Wild oxen shall fall with them,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and young steers with the mighty bulls.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Their land shall be soaked with blood,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and their soil made rich with fat.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has a day of vengeance,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">a year of vindication by Zion’s cause.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22198a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>And the streams of Edom<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22199b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> shall be turned into pitch,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and her soil into sulfur;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">her land shall become burning pitch.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Night and day it shall not be quenched;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">its smoke shall go up forever.</span></span><br /><span class="text">From generation to generation it shall lie waste;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">no one shall pass through it forever and ever.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>But the hawk<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22201c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> and the hedgehog<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22201d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> shall possess it;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the owl<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22201e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> and the raven shall live in it.</span></span><br /><span class="text">He shall stretch the line of confusion over it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the plummet of chaos over<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22201f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> its nobles.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>They shall name it No Kingdom There,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and all its princes shall be nothing.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">nettles and thistles in its fortresses.</span></span><br /><span class="text">It shall be the haunt of jackals,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">an abode for ostriches.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Wildcats shall meet with hyenas,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">goat-demons shall call to each other;</span></span><br /><span class="text">there too Lilith shall repose,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and find a place to rest.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>There shall the owl nest</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and lay and hatch and brood in its shadow;</span></span><br /><span class="text">there too the buzzards shall gather,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">each one with its mate.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Seek and read from the book of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>:</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Not one of these shall be missing;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">none shall be without its mate.</span></span><br /><span class="text">For the mouth of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has commanded,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and his spirit has gathered them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>He has cast the lot for them,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">his hand has portioned it out to them with the line;</span></span><br /><span class="text">they shall possess it forever,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">from generation to generation they shall live in it.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 34:8">Isaiah 34:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>of recompense by Zion’s defender</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 34:9">Isaiah 34:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>her streams</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 34:11">Isaiah 34:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Identification uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 34:11">Isaiah 34:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Identification uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 34:11">Isaiah 34:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Identification uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 34:11">Isaiah 34:11</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb lacks <i>over</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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