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Isaiah 34 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Judgment Against the Nations

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:1 - Come near, you nations, and listen; pay attention, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world, and all that comes out of it!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:2 - The LORD is angry with all nations; his wrath is on all their armies. He will totally destroy[fn] them, he will give them over to slaughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:3 - Their slain will be thrown out, their dead bodies will stink; the mountains will be soaked with their blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:4 - All the stars in the sky will be dissolved and the heavens rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:5 - My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; see, it descends in judgment on Edom, the people I have totally destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:6 - The sword 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 in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:7 - And the wild oxen will fall with them, the bull calves and the great bulls. Their land will be drenched with blood, and the dust will be soaked with fat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:8 - For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion’s cause.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:9 - Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch, her dust into burning sulfur; her land will become blazing pitch!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:10 - It will not be quenched night or day; its smoke will rise forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever pass through it again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:11 - The desert owl[fn] and screech owl[fn] will possess it; the great owl[fn] and the raven will nest there. God will stretch out over Edom the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of desolation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:12 - Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom, all her princes will vanish away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:13 - Thorns will overrun her citadels, nettles and brambles her strongholds. She will become a haunt for jackals, a home for owls.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:14 - Desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and wild goats will bleat to each other; there the night creatures will also lie down and find for themselves places of rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:15 - The owl will nest there and lay eggs, she will hatch them, and care for her young under the shadow of her wings; there also the falcons will gather, each with its mate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:16 - Look in the scroll of the LORD and read: None of these will be missing, not one will lack her mate. For it is his mouth that has given the order, and his Spirit will gather them together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:17 - He allots their portions; his hand distributes them by measure. They will possess it forever and dwell there from generation to generation.
See the NIV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NIV Footnotes
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.
The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.
The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.
The precise identification of these birds is uncertain.
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