(A)Wild oxen shall (B)fall with them,
    and (C)young steers with (D)the mighty bulls.
Their land shall drink its fill of blood,
    and their soil shall be gorged with fat.

(E)For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
    a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
(F)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 (G)it shall not be quenched;
    (H)its smoke shall go up forever.
(I)From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
    none shall pass through it forever and ever.
11 (J)But the hawk and the porcupine[b] shall possess it,
    the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
(K)He shall stretch the line of (L)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.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:9 Hebrew her streams
  2. Isaiah 34:11 The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain
  3. Isaiah 34:11 Hebrew formlessness

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