Isaiah 34 · Clearspring

Judgment on the Nations

¹Come 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.+ ²The 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.+ ³Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.+ ⁴All 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.+

Judgment on Edom

Isaiah 21:11–12

⁵When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.+ ⁶The 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.+ ⁷And 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.+ ⁸For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.+ ⁹Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.+ ¹⁰It 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.+ ¹¹The 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.+ ¹²No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing.+ ¹³Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.+ ¹⁴The 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.+ ¹⁵There 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.+ ¹⁶Search 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.+ ¹⁷He 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.+

Judgment on the Nations

Judgment on Edom

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