Zechariah 14:12

English Standard Version

¹²And this shall be ^(A)the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

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Zechariah 14:12

New International Version

¹²This is the plague with which the Lord will strike^(A) all the nations that fought against Jerusalem: Their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.^(B)

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Ezekiel 39:17-20

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¹⁷“As for you, ^(A)son of man, thus says the Lord God: ^(B)Speak to ^(C)the birds of every sort and to ^(D)all beasts of the field: ‘Assemble and come, gather from all around to ^(E)the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood. ¹⁸^(F)You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of rams, of lambs, and of he-goats, of bulls, all of them ^(G)fat beasts of Bashan. ¹⁹And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you. ²⁰And you shall be filled at my table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men and all kinds of warriors,’ declares the Lord God.

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Ezekiel 39:17-20

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¹⁷“Son of man, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Call out to every kind of bird^(A) and all the wild animals: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrifice I am preparing for you, the great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.^(B) ¹⁸You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth as if they were rams and lambs, goats and bulls—all of them fattened animals from Bashan.^(C) ¹⁹At the sacrifice^(D) I am preparing for you, you will eat fat till you are glutted and drink blood till you are drunk. ²⁰At my table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, mighty men and soldiers of every kind,’ declares the Sovereign Lord.^(E)

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Zechariah 12:9

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⁹^(A)And on that day ^(B)I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

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Zechariah 12:9

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⁹On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations^(A) that attack Jerusalem.^(B)

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Micah 7:16-17

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¹⁶^(A)The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might;
^(B)they shall lay their hands on their mouths;
    their ears shall be deaf;
¹⁷^(C)they shall lick the dust like a serpent,
    like the crawling things of the earth;
^(D)they shall come trembling out of their strongholds;
    ^(E)they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God,
    and they shall be in fear of you.

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Micah 7:16-17

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¹⁶Nations will see and be ashamed,^(A)
    deprived of all their power.
They will put their hands over their mouths^(B)
    and their ears will become deaf.
¹⁷They will lick dust^(C) like a snake,
    like creatures that crawl on the ground.
They will come trembling^(D) out of their dens;
    they will turn in fear^(E) to the Lord our God
    and will be afraid of you.

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Micah 4:11-13

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¹¹Now ^(A)many nations
    are assembled against you,
saying, “Let her be defiled,
    and ^(B)let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”
¹²But ^(C)they do not know
    the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,
    that ^(D)he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.
¹³Arise and thresh,
    O daughter of Zion,
for I will make your horn iron,
    and I will make your hoofs bronze;
you shall beat in pieces many peoples;
    and ^(E)shall devote^[a] ^(F)their gain to the Lord,
    their wealth to ^(G)the Lord of the whole earth.

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Micah 4:13 Hebrew devote to destruction

Micah 4:11-13

New International Version

¹¹But now many nations
    are gathered against you.
They say, “Let her be defiled,
    let our eyes gloat^(A) over Zion!”
¹²But they do not know
    the thoughts of the Lord;
they do not understand his plan,^(B)
    that he has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.
¹³“Rise and thresh,^(C) Daughter Zion,
    for I will give you horns of iron;
I will give you hooves of bronze,
    and you will break to pieces many nations.”^(D)
You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the Lord,^(E)
    their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

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Isaiah 66:15-16

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Final Judgment and Glory of the Lord

¹⁵“For behold, ^(A)the Lord will come in fire,
    and ^(B)his chariots like the whirlwind,
to render his anger in fury,
    and his rebuke with flames of fire.
¹⁶For ^(C)by fire ^(D)will the Lord enter into judgment,
    and by his sword, with all flesh;
    and those slain by the Lord shall be many.

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Isaiah 66:15-16

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¹⁵See, the Lord is coming with fire,^(A)
    and his chariots^(B) are like a whirlwind;^(C)
he will bring down his anger with fury,
    and his rebuke^(D) with flames of fire.
¹⁶For with fire^(E) and with his sword^(F)
    the Lord will execute judgment^(G) on all people,
    and many will be those slain^(H) by the Lord.

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Revelation 9:5-6

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⁵They were allowed to torment them ^(A)for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. ⁶And in those days ^(B)people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.

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Revelation 9:5-6

New International Version

⁵They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months.^(A) And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion^(B) when it strikes. ⁶During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.^(C)

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Zechariah 14:3

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³^(A)Then the Lord will go out and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle.

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Zechariah 14:3

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³Then the Lord will go out and fight^(A) against those nations, as he fights on a day of battle.^(B)

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Ezekiel 39:4-6

English Standard Version

⁴^(A)You shall fall on ^(B)the mountains of Israel, you and all your ^(C)hordes and the peoples who are with you. ^(D)I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. ⁵You shall fall in the open field, for ^(E)I have spoken, declares the Lord God. ⁶^(F)I will send fire on ^(G)Magog and on those ^(H)who dwell securely in ^(I)the coastlands, and ^(J)they shall know that I am the Lord.

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Ezekiel 39:4-6

New International Version

⁴On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds^(A) and to the wild animals.^(B) ⁵You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.^(C) ⁶I will send fire^(D) on Magog^(E) and on those who live in safety in the coastlands,^(F) and they will know^(G) that I am the Lord.

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Ezekiel 38:18-22

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¹⁸But on that day, the day that Gog shall come against the land of Israel, declares the Lord God, ^(A)my wrath will be roused in my anger. ¹⁹For ^(B)in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day ^(C)there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. ²⁰^(D)The fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the people who are on the face of the earth, ^(E)shall quake at my presence. And ^(F)the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground. ²¹^(G)I will summon a sword against Gog^[a] on all my mountains, declares the Lord God. ^(H)Every man's sword will be against his brother. ²²With pestilence and bloodshed ^(I)I will enter into judgment with him, and ^(J)I will rain upon him and ^(K)his hordes and the many peoples who are with him ^(L)torrential rains and hailstones, ^(M)fire and sulfur.

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Ezekiel 38:21 Hebrew against him

Ezekiel 38:18-22

New International Version

¹⁸This is what will happen in that day: When Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares the Sovereign Lord. ¹⁹In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there shall be a great earthquake^(A) in the land of Israel.^(B) ²⁰The fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the beasts of the field, every creature that moves along the ground, and all the people on the face of the earth will tremble^(C) at my presence. The mountains will be overturned,^(D) the cliffs will crumble^(E) and every wall will fall to the ground.^(F) ²¹I will summon a sword^(G) against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Sovereign Lord. Every man’s sword will be against his brother.^(H) ²²I will execute judgment^(I) on him with plague and bloodshed;^(J) I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones^(K) and burning sulfur^(L) on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.^(M)

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Isaiah 34

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Judgment on the Nations

34 Draw near, ^(A)O nations, to hear,
    and give attention, O peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that fills it;
    the world, and all that comes from it.
²For the Lord is enraged against all the nations,
    and furious against all their host;
    he has ^(B)devoted them to destruction,^[a] has given them over for slaughter.
³Their slain shall be cast out,
    and ^(C)the stench of their corpses shall rise;
    ^(D)the mountains shall flow with their blood.
⁴^(E)All the host of heaven shall rot away,
    and the skies roll up like a scroll.
All their host shall fall,
    as leaves fall from the vine,
    like leaves falling from the fig tree.

⁵For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
    behold, it descends for judgment upon ^(F)Edom,
    upon the people ^(G)I have devoted to destruction.
⁶The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;
    it is gorged with fat,
    with the blood of lambs and goats,
    with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
^(H)For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
    a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
⁷^(I)Wild oxen shall ^(J)fall with them,
    and ^(K)young steers with ^(L)the mighty bulls.
Their land shall drink its fill of blood,
    and their soil shall be gorged with fat.

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

¹³^(U)Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,
    nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of ^(V)jackals,
    an abode for ostriches.^[e]
¹⁴^(W)And wild animals shall meet with hyenas;
    the wild goat shall cry to his fellow;
indeed, there the night bird^[f] settles
    and finds for herself a resting place.

¹⁵There the owl nests and lays
    and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow;
indeed, there ^(X)the hawks are gathered,
    each one with her mate.
¹⁶Seek and read from the book of the Lord:
    Not one of these shall be missing;
    none shall be without her mate.
For the mouth of the Lord has commanded,
    and his Spirit has gathered them.
¹⁷^(Y)He has cast the lot for them;
    his hand has portioned it out to them with the line;
they shall possess it forever;
    from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.

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Isaiah 34:2 That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verse 5
Isaiah 34:9 Hebrew her streams
Isaiah 34:11 The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain
Isaiah 34:11 Hebrew formlessness
Isaiah 34:13 Or owls
Isaiah 34:14 Identity uncertain

Isaiah 34

New International Version

Judgment Against the Nations

34 Come near, you nations, and listen;^(A)
    pay attention, you peoples!^(B)
Let the earth^(C) hear, and all that is in it,
    the world, and all that comes out of it!^(D)
²The Lord is angry with all nations;
    his wrath^(E) is on all their armies.
He will totally destroy^[a]^(F) them,
    he will give them over to slaughter.^(G)
³Their slain^(H) will be thrown out,
    their dead bodies^(I) will stink;^(J)
    the mountains will be soaked with their blood.^(K)
⁴All the stars in the sky will be dissolved^(L)
    and the heavens rolled up^(M) like a scroll;
all the starry host will fall^(N)
    like withered^(O) leaves from the vine,
    like shriveled figs from the fig tree.

⁵My sword^(P) has drunk its fill in the heavens;
    see, it descends in judgment on Edom,^(Q)
    the people I have totally destroyed.^(R)
⁶The sword^(S) of the Lord is bathed in blood,
    it is covered with fat—
the blood of lambs and goats,
    fat from the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice^(T) in Bozrah^(U)
    and a great slaughter^(V) in the land of Edom.
⁷And the wild oxen^(W) will fall with them,
    the bull calves and the great bulls.^(X)
Their land will be drenched with blood,^(Y)
    and the dust will be soaked with fat.

⁸For the Lord has a day^(Z) of vengeance,^(AA)
    a year of retribution,^(AB) to uphold Zion’s cause.
⁹Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
    her dust into burning sulfur;^(AC)
    her land will become blazing pitch!
¹⁰It will not be quenched^(AD) night or day;
    its smoke will rise forever.^(AE)
From generation to generation^(AF) it will lie desolate;^(AG)
    no one will ever pass through it again.
¹¹The desert owl^[b]^(AH) and screech owl^[c] will possess it;
    the great owl^[d] and the raven^(AI) will nest there.
God will stretch out over Edom^(AJ)
    the measuring line of chaos^(AK)
    and the plumb line^(AL) of desolation.
¹²Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom,
    all her princes^(AM) will vanish^(AN) away.
¹³Thorns^(AO) will overrun her citadels,
    nettles and brambles her strongholds.^(AP)
She will become a haunt for jackals,^(AQ)
    a home for owls.^(AR)
¹⁴Desert creatures^(AS) will meet with hyenas,^(AT)
    and wild goats will bleat to each other;
there the night creatures^(AU) will also lie down
    and find for themselves places of rest.
¹⁵The owl will nest there and lay eggs,
    she will hatch them, and care for her young
    under the shadow of her wings;^(AV)
there also the falcons^(AW) will gather,
    each with its mate.

¹⁶Look in the scroll^(AX) of the Lord and read:

None of these will be missing,^(AY)
    not one will lack her mate.
For it is his mouth^(AZ) that has given the order,^(BA)
    and his Spirit will gather them together.
¹⁷He allots their portions;^(BB)
    his hand distributes them by measure.
They will possess it forever
    and dwell there from generation to generation.^(BC)

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Isaiah 34:2 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verse 5.
Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.
Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.
Isaiah 34:11 The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.

Psalm 110:5-6

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⁵The Lord is at your ^(A)right hand;
    he will ^(B)shatter kings on ^(C)the day of his wrath.
⁶He will ^(D)execute judgment among the nations,
    ^(E)filling them with corpses;
he will ^(F)shatter chiefs^[a]
    over the wide earth.

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Psalm 110:6 Or the head

Psalm 110:5-6

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⁵The Lord is at your right hand^[a];^(A)
he will crush kings^(B) on the day of his wrath.^(C)
⁶He will judge the nations,^(D) heaping up the dead^(E)
and crushing the rulers^(F) of the whole earth.

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Psalm 110:5 Or My lord is at your right hand, Lord

Psalm 90:11

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¹¹Who considers the power of your anger,
and your wrath according to the fear of you?

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Psalm 90:11

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¹¹If only we knew the power of your anger!
Your wrath^(A) is as great as the fear that is your due.^(B)

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