{"book":"Isaiah","slug":"isaiah","ch":34,"genre":"poetry","sub":"Isaiah","prev":"isaiah/33","next":"isaiah/35","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Come near, O nations, to listen;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"pay attention, O peoples."},{"style":"indent1","t":"Let the earth hear, and all that fills it,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"the world and all that springs from it."}],"h":"Judgment on the Nations","style":"indent1stline"},{"v":2,"t":"The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.","f":["Forms of the Hebrew cherem refer to the giving over of things or persons, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering; also in verse 5."],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"The LORD is angry with all the nations"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and furious with all their armies."},{"style":"indent1","t":"He will devote them to destruction;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"He will give them over to slaughter."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":3,"t":"Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Their slain will be left unburied,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and the stench of their corpses will rise;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"the mountains will flow with their blood."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":4,"t":"All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"All the stars of heaven will be dissolved."},{"style":"indent2","t":"The skies will be rolled up like a scroll,"},{"style":"indent1","t":"and all their stars will fall"},{"style":"indent2","t":"like withered leaves from the vine,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"like foliage from the fig tree."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":5,"t":"When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"then it will come down upon Edom,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"upon the people I have devoted to destruction."}],"h":"Judgment on Edom","style":"indent1stline"},{"v":6,"t":"The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat — with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood."},{"style":"indent2","t":"It drips with fat —"},{"style":"indent1","t":"with the blood of lambs and goats,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"with the fat of the kidneys of rams."},{"style":"indent1","t":"For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"a great slaughter in the land of Edom."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":7,"t":"And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong [ones]. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"And the wild oxen will fall with them,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"the young bulls with the strong [ones]."},{"style":"indent1","t":"Their land will be drenched with blood,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and their soil will be soaked with fat."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":8,"t":"For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.","f":["Or of recompense for (Edom’s) hostility against Zion."],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"For the LORD has a day of vengeance,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"a year of recompense for the cause of Zion."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":9,"t":"[Edom’s] streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"[Edom’s] streams will be turned to tar,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and her soil to sulfur;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"her land will become a blazing pitch."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":10,"t":"It will not be quenched — day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"It will not be quenched — day or night."},{"style":"indent2","t":"Its smoke will ascend forever."},{"style":"indent1","t":"From generation to generation it will lie desolate;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"no one will ever again pass through it."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":11,"t":"The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over [Edom] a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.","f":["The precise identification of these birds is uncertain."],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"The desert owl and screech owl will possess it,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and the great owl and raven will dwell in it."},{"style":"indent1stline","t":"The LORD will stretch out over [Edom]"},{"style":"indent2","t":"a measuring line of chaos"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and a plumb line of destruction."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":12,"t":"No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"No nobles will be left to proclaim a king,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and all her princes will come to nothing."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":13,"t":"Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.","f":["Or serpents or dragons","Literally for daughters of an ostrich or for daughters of an owl"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Her towers will be overgrown with thorns,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"her fortresses with thistles and briers."},{"style":"indent1","t":"She will become a haunt for jackals,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"an abode for ostriches."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":14,"t":"The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.","f":["Hebrew Lilith"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"The desert creatures will meet with hyenas,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and one wild goat will call to another."},{"style":"indent1","t":"There the night creature will settle"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and find her place of repose."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":15,"t":"There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"There the owl will make her nest;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"she will lay and hatch her eggs"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and gather her brood under her shadow."},{"style":"indent1","t":"Even there the birds of prey will gather,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"each with its mate."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":16,"t":"Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"reg","t":"Search and read the scroll of the LORD:"},{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Not one of these will go missing,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"not one will lack her mate,"},{"style":"indent1","t":"because He has ordered it by His mouth,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and He will gather them by His Spirit."}],"style":"reg"},{"v":17,"t":"He has allotted their portion; His hand has distributed it by measure. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"He has allotted their portion;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"His hand has distributed it by measure."},{"style":"indent1","t":"They will possess it forever;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"they will dwell in it from generation to generation."}],"style":"indent1"}]}