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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.
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.
For Yahweh has a day of vengeance,[h]
    a year of retribution for the strife of Zion.
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.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:6 Literally “A sword for Yahweh”
  2. Isaiah 34:6 Or “from”
  3. Isaiah 34:6 Or “from”
  4. Isaiah 34:6 Or “from”
  5. Isaiah 34:6 Literally “a sacrifice for Yahweh”
  6. Isaiah 34:7 Or “from”
  7. Isaiah 34:7 Or “from”
  8. Isaiah 34:8 Literally “a day of vengeance for Yahweh”