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10 The fires will burn day and night—no one will stop the fire. The smoke will rise from Edom forever. The land will be destroyed forever and ever. No one will ever travel through that land again. 11 Birds and small animals will own that land. It will be a home for owls and ravens. God will leave that land in ruins. People will call it “the empty desert.”[a] 12 The free men[b] and leaders will all be gone, and there will be nothing left for them to rule.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:11 God … desert Literally, “He will stretch over it the measuring string of ‘emptiness’ and the stone weights of ‘nothingness.’” These two words described the empty earth in Gen. 1:2.
  2. Isaiah 34:12 free men Important citizens of a town or country. These people came from “good families” and had never been slaves.

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