KJ3 Literal Translation
Isaiah 34
The judgments where Jehovah renews his people. The desolation of her enemies.
1Nations, come near to hear; and peoples, give attention! Let the earth hear, and its fullness, the world and all its offspring.
2For the wrath of Jehovah is on all the nations, and fury on all their army; He has devoted them; He gave them to slaughter.
3And their slain shall be thrown out; and the stench from their carcasses shall go up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4And all the host of the heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled like a scroll. Then all their host shall droop, as a leaf drooping from the vine, and as the drooping from a fig tree.
5For My sword is drenched in the heavens. Behold, it shall come down on Edom, and on the people of My curse, for judgment.
6A sword is to Jehovah; it is filled with blood; it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For to Jehovah is a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7And wild oxen shall come down with them, and young bulls with strong bulls; and their land is drenched with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
8For the day of vengeance is to Jehovah, the year of retribution for Zion's cause.
9And its torrents shall be turned to pitch, and its dust to brimstone; and its land shall become burning pitch.
10It shall not be put out night or day; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation, it shall lie waste; no one shall pass through it forever and forever.
11But the owl and the hedgehog shall possess it; and the eared owl and the raven shall live in it. And He shall stretch out on it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
12They shall call its nobles to a kingdom, but none shall be there; and all her rulers shall be nothing.
13And thorns, nettles and thistles shall go up in her palaces, in its fortresses; and it shall be a home for jackals, a court for daughters of ostriches.
14The desert creatures shall also meet with the howlers; and the shaggy goat shall cry to his fellow. The Lillich shall also settle there, and find a resting place for herself.
15The snake shall nest there, and shall lay, and hatch, and shall gather in her shadow. Also shall gather there birds of prey, each with its mate.
16Search and read from the Book of Jehovah; not one of these shall miss, each not lacking her mate; for He has commanded my mouth, and by His Spirit He has gathered them.
17And He has made fall a lot for them, and His hand divided it to them by line. They shall possess it until forever, from generation and generation they shall live in it.
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