Isaiah 34

Tree of Life Version

34 Draw near, O nations, to hear,
and listen, O peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all it contains,
the world, and all its offspring!
² For Adonai is enraged at all the nations,
and furious at all their armies.
He will utterly destroy them.
He will give them over to slaughter.
³ So their slain will be thrown out,
and the stench of their corpses will rise,
and the hills will be drenched with their blood.
⁴ Then all the host of heaven will dissolve,
and the skies will be rolled up like a scroll—
so all their array will wither away,
    like a leaf drooping from a vine,
    like a fig shriveling from a fig tree.

⁵ For My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens.
See, it will come down upon Edom,
    upon the people I have devoted to judgment.
⁶ The sword of Adonai is filled with blood, gorged with fat—
    the blood of lambs and goats,
    the fat of kidneys of rams.
For Adonai has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
⁷ Wild oxen will go down with them,
    bull calves with mighty steers.
So their land will be soaked with blood
    and their dust greasy with fat.
⁸ For Adonai has a day of vengeance,
a year of recompense for the hostility against Zion.
⁹ Its streams will be turned into pitch,
its dust into brimstone,
and its land will become burning tar.
¹⁰ It will not be quenched night or day.
Its smoke will go up forever.
From generation to generation it will lay waste—
    forever and ever none will pass through it.
¹¹ But pelican and porcupine will have it,
    owl and raven will dwell in it.
He will stretch a line of chaos over it
    and stones of desolation.
¹² As for its nobles, there are none there to call it a kingdom,
and all its princes will come to nothing.
¹³ Thorns will come up in its palaces,
nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It will be a haunt of jackals,
    an abode for ostriches.
¹⁴ Wildcats will meet with wolves,
the goat-demon will cry to its kind—
yes, the night monster will settle there
    and find itself a resting place.
¹⁵ A tree snake will nest and lay eggs there,
hatch and gather them under its shadow.
Surely, hawks are gathered there,
    each one with her mate.
¹⁶ Seek from the scroll of Adonai, and read!
Not one of them will be missing;
    none will lack its mate.
For His mouth commanded it,
    and His Ruach gathered them.
¹⁷ He cast the lot for them,
and His hand divided it out to them with the line.
They will possess it forever,
and dwell in it from generation to generation.