Isaiah 34:1-8 (New International Version)

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Isaiah 34:1-8

New International Version (NIV)

Judgment Against the Nations

34 Come near, you nations, and listen;
    pay attention, you peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,
    the world, and all that comes out of it!
²The Lord is angry with all nations;
    his wrath is on all their armies.
He will totally destroy^[a] them,
    he will give them over to slaughter.
³Their slain will be thrown out,
    their dead bodies will stink;
    the mountains will be soaked with their blood.
⁴All the stars in the sky will be dissolved
    and the heavens rolled up like a scroll;
all the starry host will fall
    like withered leaves from the vine,
    like shriveled figs from the fig tree.

⁵My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
    see, it descends in judgment on Edom,
    the people I have totally destroyed.
⁶The sword of the Lord is bathed in blood,
    it is covered with fat—
the blood of lambs and goats,
    fat from the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah
    and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
⁷And the wild oxen will fall with them,
    the bull calves and the great bulls.
Their land will be drenched with blood,
    and the dust will be soaked with fat.

⁸For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
a year of retribution, to uphold Zion’s cause.

Footnotes:

Isaiah 34:2 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 5.