Isaiah 34

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God Will Punish His Enemies

34 All you nations, come near and listen.
    Pay attention, you peoples!
The earth and ·everything in it [all it contains] should listen,
    the world and all ·the people in it [its offspring].
²The Lord is angry with all the nations;
    he is ·angry [furious] with their armies.
    He will ·destroy them [devote them to destruction; Josh. 6:21] and ·kill them all [turn them over for slaughter].
³Their bodies will be thrown outside.
    The ·stink [stench] will rise from the ·bodies [corpses],
    and the blood will flow down the mountains.
⁴·The sun, moon, and stars [^LAll the hosts/armies of heaven] will dissolve [Joel 2:31; Matt. 24:29; Acts 2:20; Rev. 6:13–14],
    and the ·sky [heavens] will be rolled up like a scroll.
·The stars [^LAll their hosts] will fall
    like dead leaves from a vine
    or dried-up figs from a fig tree.
⁵The Lord’s sword in the ·sky [heavens] ·is covered with [has drunk its fill of] blood.
    It will ·cut through [^Ldescend upon] Edom
    and ·destroy those people as an offering to the Lord [on the people who are devoted to destruction for judgment; v. 2; Josh. 6:21].
⁶The Lord’s sword will be covered with blood;
    it will be covered with fat,
with the blood from lambs and goats,
    with the fat from the kidneys of ·sheep [rams].
This is because the Lord ·decided there will be [^Lhas] a sacrifice in Bozrah [^Cthe capital of Edom]
    and ·much killing [a great slaughter] in the land of Edom.
⁷The wild oxen will ·be killed [^Lfall with them],
    and the ·cattle [or young bulls] and the strong ·bulls [^Lones; ^Cperhaps referring to Edom’s leaders].
The land will ·be filled with [drink its fill of] their blood,
    and the dirt will be covered with their fat.

⁸The Lord has chosen a time for punishment.
    He has chosen a year ·when people must pay [of retribution/recompense] for the ·wrongs they did to [or the cause of] ·Jerusalem [^LZion; ^Cthe location of the Temple].
⁹Edom’s rivers will be like ·hot tar [pitch].
    Its ·dirt [dust] will be like ·burning sulfur [^Tbrimstone].
    Its land will be like burning ·tar [pitch].
¹⁰The fires will ·burn [^Lnot be quenched] night and day;
    the smoke will rise from Edom forever.
·Year after year [^LFrom generation to generation] that land will be ·empty [desolate];
    no one will ever ·travel [pass] through that land again.
¹¹·Birds [Desert owls; or Pelicans] and ·small animals [screech owl; or porcupine] will own that land,
    and owls and ravens will live there.
·God [^LHe] will ·make it an empty wasteland [^Lstretch over it a measuring line of confusion/chaos];
    ·it will have nothing left in it [^Land the plumb line of desolation; ^Clike a careful craftsman, God has planned Edom’s judgment].
¹²The ·important people [nobles] will have ·no one left to rule them [or nothing to call a kingdom];
    the ·leaders [officials; princes] will ·all be gone [or be nothing].
¹³Thorns will ·take over [overrun] the ·strong towers [strongholds; citadels],
    and wild bushes will grow in the ·walled cities [fortresses].
It will be a home for ·wild dogs [jackals]
    and a place for ·owls [or ostriches] to live.
¹⁴Desert animals will live with the hyenas,
    and wild goats will call to their friends.
Night animals will live there
    and find a place of rest.
¹⁵Owls will nest there and lay eggs.
    When they hatch open, the owls will gather their young under their ·wings [^Lshadow].
Hawks will gather
    with ·their own kind [or its mate].

¹⁶·Look at [^LSearch] the Lord’s scroll and read what is written there:

None of these will be missing;
    none will be without its mate.
·God [^LFor his mouth] has given the command,
    so his Spirit will gather them together.
¹⁷God has ·divided the land among [or cast the lot for] them,
    and he has ·given [measured to] them each their portion.
So they will ·own [possess] that land forever
    and will live there ·year after year [from generation to generation].

以赛亚书 34

Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)

耶和华必为其民复仇申冤

34 列国啊，要近前来听！众民哪，要侧耳而听！地和其上所充满的，世界和其中一切所出的，都应当听！ ²因为耶和华向万国发愤恨，向他们的全军发烈怒，将他们灭尽，交出他们受杀戮。 ³被杀的必然抛弃，尸首臭气上腾，诸山被他们的血溶化。 ⁴天上的万象都要消没，天被卷起好像书卷；其上的万象要残败，像葡萄树的叶子残败，又像无花果树的叶子残败一样。 ⁵“因为我的刀在天上已经喝足，这刀必临到以东和我所咒诅的民，要施行审判。 ⁶耶和华的刀满了血，用脂油和羊羔、公山羊的血，并公绵羊腰子的脂油滋润的，因为耶和华在波斯拉有献祭的事，在以东地大行杀戮。 ⁷野牛、牛犊和公牛要一同下来，他们的地喝醉了血，他们的尘土因脂油肥润。”

敌必受报遭灾

⁸因耶和华有报仇之日，为锡安的争辩有报应之年。 ⁹以东的河水要变为石油，尘埃要变为硫磺，地土成为烧着的石油。 ¹⁰昼夜总不熄灭，烟气永远上腾，必世世代代成为荒废，永永远远无人经过。 ¹¹鹈鹕、箭猪却要得为业，猫头鹰、乌鸦要住在其间。耶和华必将空虚的准绳、混沌的线砣，拉在其上。 ¹²以东人要召贵胄来治国，那里却无一个，首领也都归于无有。 ¹³以东的宫殿要长荆棘，保障要长蒺藜和刺草，要做野狗的住处、鸵鸟的居所。 ¹⁴旷野的走兽要和豺狼相遇，野山羊要与伴偶对叫，夜间的怪物必在那里栖身，自找安歇之处。 ¹⁵箭蛇要在那里做窝，下蛋，抱蛋，生子，聚子在其影下，鹞鹰各与伴偶聚集在那里。

所言必验

¹⁶你们要查考、宣读耶和华的书，这都无一缺少，无一没有伴偶。因为我的口已经吩咐，他的灵将他们聚集。 ¹⁷他也为他们拈阄，又亲手用准绳给他们分地，他们必永得为业，世世代代住在其间。

Isaiah 34

New King James Version

Judgment on the Nations

34 Come ^(A)near, you nations, to hear;
And heed, you people!
^(B)Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,
The world and all things that come forth from it.
²For the indignation of the Lord is against all nations,
And His fury against all their armies;
He has utterly destroyed them,
He has given them over to the ^(C)slaughter.
³Also their slain shall be thrown out;
^(D)Their stench shall rise from their corpses,
And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
⁴^(E)All the host of heaven shall be dissolved,
And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll;
^(F)All their host shall fall down
As the leaf falls from the vine,
And as ^(G)fruit falling from a fig tree.

⁵“For ^(H)My sword shall be bathed in heaven;
Indeed it ^(I)shall come down on Edom,
And on the people of My curse, for judgment.
⁶The ^(J)sword of the Lord is filled with blood,
It is made ^[a]overflowing with fatness,
With the blood of lambs and goats,
With the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For ^(K)the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
⁷The wild oxen shall come down with them,
And the young bulls with the mighty bulls;
Their land shall be soaked with blood,
And their dust ^[b]saturated with fatness.”

⁸For it is the day of the Lord’s ^(L)vengeance,
The year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
⁹^(M)Its streams shall be turned into pitch,
And its dust into brimstone;
Its land shall become burning pitch.
¹⁰It shall not be quenched night or day;
^(N)Its smoke shall ascend forever.
^(O)From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
No one shall pass through it forever and ever.
¹¹^(P)But the ^[c]pelican and the ^[d]porcupine shall possess it,
Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
And ^(Q)He shall stretch out over it
The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
¹²They shall call its nobles to the kingdom,
But none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing.

¹³And ^(R)thorns shall come up in its palaces,
Nettles and brambles in its fortresses;
^(S)It shall be a habitation of jackals,
A courtyard for ostriches.
¹⁴The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the ^[e]jackals,
And the wild goat shall bleat to its companion;
Also ^[f]the night creature shall rest there,
And find for herself a place of rest.
¹⁵There the arrow snake shall make her nest and lay eggs
And hatch, and gather them under her shadow;
There also shall the hawks be gathered,
Every one with her mate.

¹⁶“Search from ^(T)the book of the Lord, and read:
Not one of these shall fail;
Not one shall lack her mate.
For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them.
¹⁷He has cast the lot for them,
And His hand has divided it among them with a measuring line.
They shall possess it forever;
From generation to generation they shall dwell in it.”

Footnotes

Isaiah 34:6 Lit. fat
Isaiah 34:7 Lit. made fat
Isaiah 34:11 Or owl
Isaiah 34:11 Or hedgehog
Isaiah 34:14 Lit. howling creatures
Isaiah 34:14 Heb. lilith

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