Isaiah 34:5-17
Legacy Standard Bible
5 For (A)My sword is satiated in heaven;
Behold, it shall descend for judgment upon (B)Edom
And upon the people whom I have (C)devoted to destruction.
6 The sword of Yahweh is filled with blood;
It is [a]sated with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,
With the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For Yahweh has a sacrifice in (D)Bozrah
And a great slaughter in the land of (E)Edom.
7 (F)And wild oxen will also [b]fall with them,
And (G)young bulls with strong ones;
Thus their land will be (H)soaked with blood,
And their dust [c]become greasy with fat.
8 For Yahweh has a day of (I)vengeance,
A year of recompense for the [d]cause of Zion.
9 [e]And its streams will be turned into pitch,
And its dust into (J)brimstone,
And its land will become burning pitch.
10 It will (K)not be quenched night or day;
Its (L)smoke will go up forever.
From (M)generation to generation it will be laid waste;
(N)None will pass through it forever and ever.
11 But [f](O)pelican and hedgehog will possess it,
And [g]owl and raven will dwell in it;
And He will stretch over it the (P)line of utter formlessness
And the [h]plumb line of utter void.
12 Its nobles—there is (Q)no one there
Whom they may proclaim king—
And all its princes will be (R)non-existent.
13 And thorns will come up in its (S)fortified towers,
Weeds and thistles in its fortified cities;
It will also be a haunt of (T)jackals
And an abode of ostriches.
14 And the desert (U)creatures will meet with the [i]wolves;
The [j](V)hairy goat also will cry to its kind;
Surely, the [k]night creature will obtain relief there
And will find itself a resting place.
15 The [l]owl will make its nest and find its escape there,
And it will hatch its eggs and gather them in its shade.
Surely, (W)the [m]falcons will be gathered there,
Every one with its kind.
16 Seek from the (X)book of Yahweh, and read:
Not one of these will be missing;
None will lack its mate.
For [n](Y)His mouth has commanded,
And His Spirit has gathered them.
17 He has cast the (Z)lot for them,
And His hand has divided it to them by (AA)line.
They shall possess it forever;
From (AB)generation to generation they will dwell in it.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 34:6 Lit made fat
- Isaiah 34:7 Lit go down
- Isaiah 34:7 Lit made fat
- Isaiah 34:8 Or controversy
- Isaiah 34:9 Edom’s
- Isaiah 34:11 Or owl, jackdaw
- Isaiah 34:11 Or great horned owl
- Isaiah 34:11 Lit stones of void
- Isaiah 34:14 Or howling creatures
- Isaiah 34:14 Or goat demon
- Isaiah 34:14 Heb Lilith
- Isaiah 34:15 Or tree snake
- Isaiah 34:15 Or hawks
- Isaiah 34:16 As in DSS; M.T. My
Isaiah 34:5-17
Lexham English Bible
5 When my sword is drenched in the heavens,
look! It will descend upon Edom,
and upon the people of my ban, for judgment.
6 Yahweh has a sword;[a]
it is full of blood.
It is covered with[b] fat,
with[c] the blood of lambs and goats,
with[d] the fat of the kidneys of rams,
for Yahweh has a sacrifice[e] in Bozrah
and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 And wild oxen shall go down with them,
and steers with strong bulls.
And their land shall be drenched with[f] blood,
and their soil shall be fattened with[g] fat.
8 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance,[h]
a year of retribution for the strife of Zion.
9 And its streams shall be changed to pitch and its soil to sulfur,
and its land shall become like burning pitch.
10 Night and day it shall not be quenched;
its smoke shall go up forever.
From generation to generation it shall be in ruins;
forever and ever there will be no one who passes through her.
11 But[i] the large bird and the hedgehog shall take possession of it,
and the owl and the raven shall live in it.
And he shall stretch the measuring line of confusion out over it,
and the plumb line of emptiness.
12 Its nobles—but no kingdom is there—shall call,
and all its princes shall be nothing.
13 And thorns shall go up her citadel fortress,
weeds[j] and thistle plants[k] in her fortresses;
and it shall be the settlement of jackals,
green grass for the daughters of an ostrich.
14 And desert creatures shall meet with hyenas,
and a goat-demon shall call to his neighbor;
surely there Lilith[l] shall repose,
and she shall find a resting place for herself.
15 There the owl shall nest and lay
and hatch and care for her chicks in her shadow;
surely there the birds of prey shall be gathered,
each one with her mate.
16 Seek from the book of Yahweh and read;[m]
none of these shall be missing;
none shall miss her mate.
For my[n] mouth is the one that[o] has commanded,
and his spirit is the one that[p] has gathered them.
17 And he is the one that[q] has cast the lot for them,
and his hand has apportioned it to them with the measuring line;
they shall take possession of it forever,
they shall live in it from generation to generation.[r]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 34:6 Literally “A sword for Yahweh”
- Isaiah 34:6 Or “from”
- Isaiah 34:6 Or “from”
- Isaiah 34:6 Or “from”
- Isaiah 34:6 Literally “a sacrifice for Yahweh”
- Isaiah 34:7 Or “from”
- Isaiah 34:7 Or “from”
- Isaiah 34:8 Literally “a day of vengeance for Yahweh”
- Isaiah 34:11 Or “And”
- Isaiah 34:13 Hebrew “weed”
- Isaiah 34:13 Hebrew “thistle plant”
- Isaiah 34:14 Hebrew transliteration; possibly a proper name for a Mesopotamian night-demon
- Isaiah 34:16 Literally “call”
- Isaiah 34:16 The Dead Sea Scroll has “his”
- Isaiah 34:16 Literally “he”
- Isaiah 34:16 Literally “he”
- Isaiah 34:17 Literally “he”
- Isaiah 34:17 Literally “to generation and generation”
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