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Isaiah 34:1-4
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The Lord Will Judge Edom

34 Come near, you nations, and listen!
Pay attention, you people!
The earth and everything it contains must listen,
the world and everything that lives in it.[a]
2 For the Lord is angry at all the nations
and furious with all their armies.
He will annihilate them and slaughter them.
3 Their slain will be left unburied,[b]
their corpses will stink;[c]
the hills will soak up their blood.[d]
4 All the stars in the sky will fade away,[e]
the sky will roll up like a scroll;
all its stars will wither,
like a leaf withers and falls from a vine
or a fig withers and falls from a tree.[f]

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  1. Isaiah 34:1 tn Heb “the world and its offspring”; NASB “the world and all that springs from it.”
  2. Isaiah 34:3 tn Heb “will be cast aside”; NASB, NIV “thrown out.”
  3. Isaiah 34:3 tn Heb “[as for] their corpses, their stench will arise.”
  4. Isaiah 34:3 tn Heb “hills will dissolve from their blood.”
  5. Isaiah 34:4 tc Heb “and all the host of heaven will rot.” The Qumran scroll 1QIsaa inserts “and the valleys will be split open,” but this reading may be influenced by Mic 1:4. On the other hand, the statement, if original, could have been omitted by homoioarcton, a scribe’s eye jumping from the conjunction prefixed to “the valleys” to the conjunction prefixed to the verb “rot.”
  6. Isaiah 34:4 tn Heb “like the withering of a leaf from a vine, and like the withering from a fig tree.”
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Isaiah 34:1-4
American Standard Version

34 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all things that come forth from it. 2 For Jehovah hath indignation against all the nations, and wrath against all their host: he hath [a]utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. 3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 4 And all the host of heaven shall [b]be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as the leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as a fading leaf from the fig-tree.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:2 Hebrew devoted.
  2. Isaiah 34:4 Or, moulder away
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