Isaiah 34

Judgment on the Nations

¹Come near, nations, to hear;

Let the earth hear, and that which fills it;

²For the anger of Yahweh is against all the nations,

he has put them under a ban,

³And their slain shall be cast out;

And the mountains shall melt with their blood,

And the skies shall roll up like a scroll,

like the withering of a leaf from a vine,

⁵When my sword is drenched in the heavens,

look! It will descend upon Edom,

⁶Yahweh has a sword;[#Literally “A sword for Yahweh”]

it is full of blood.

with the blood of lambs and goats,

for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah

⁷And wild oxen shall go down with them,

And their land shall be drenched with blood,

⁸For Yahweh has a day of vengeance,[#Literally “a day of vengeance for Yahweh”]

⁹And its streams shall be changed to pitch and its soil to sulfur,

¹⁰Night and day it shall not be quenched;

From generation to generation it shall be in ruins;

¹¹But the large bird and the hedgehog shall take possession of it,[#Or “And”]

And he shall stretch the measuring line of confusion out over it,

¹²Its nobles—but no kingdom is there—shall call,

¹³And thorns shall go up her citadel fortress,

and it shall be the settlement of jackals,

¹⁴And desert creatures shall meet with hyenas,

surely there Lilith shall repose,

¹⁵There the owl shall nest and lay

surely there the birds of prey shall be gathered,

¹⁶Seek from the book of Yahweh and read;[#Literally “call”]

none of these shall be missing;

For my mouth is the one that has commanded,

¹⁷And he is the one that has cast the lot for them,[#Literally “he”]

they shall take possession of it forever,