Isaiah 34:8-12

English Standard Version

^8 (A)For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
    a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
^9 (B)And the streams of Edom^[a] shall be turned into pitch,
    and her soil into sulfur;
    her land shall become burning pitch.
¹⁰ Night and day ^(C)it shall not be quenched;
    ^(D)its smoke shall go up forever.
^(E)From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
    none shall pass through it forever and ever.
^11 (F)But the hawk and the porcupine^[b] shall possess it,
    the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
^(G)He shall stretch the line of ^(H)confusion^[c] over it,
    and the plumb line of emptiness.
¹² Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom,
    and all its princes shall be nothing.