34:1 COME NEAR, you nations, to hear; and hearken, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it; the world, and all things that come forth from it. |
34:2 For the Lord is indignant against all nations, and His wrath is against all their host. He has utterly doomed them, He has given them over to slaughter. |
34:3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall rise, and the mountains shall flow with their blood. |
34:4 All the host of the heavens shall be dissolved {and} crumble away, and the skies shall be rolled together like a scroll; and all their host [the stars and the planets] shall drop like a faded leaf from the vine, and like a withered fig from the fig tree. |
34:5 Because My sword has been bathed {and} equipped in heaven, behold, it shall come down upon Edom [the descendants of Esau], upon the people whom I have doomed for judgment. |
34:6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood [of sacrifices], it is gorged {and} greased with fatness--with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah [capital of Edom] and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. |
34:7 And the wild oxen shall fall with them, and the [young] bullocks with the [old and mighty] bulls; and their land shall be drunk {and} soaked with blood, and their dust made rich with fatness. |
34:8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense, for the cause of Zion. |
34:9 And the streams [of Edom] will be turned into pitch and its dust into brimstone, and its land will become burning pitch. |
34:10 [The burning of Edom] shall not be quenched night or day; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever. |
34:11 But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it; the owl {and} the bittern and the raven will dwell in it. And He will stretch over it [Edom] the measuring line of confusion and the plummet stones of chaos [over its nobles]. |
34:12 They shall call its nobles to proclaim the kingdom, but nothing shall be there, and all its princes shall be no more. |
34:13 And thorns shall come up in its palaces {and} strongholds, nettles and brambles in its fortresses; and it shall be a habitation for jackals, an abode for ostriches. |
34:14 And the wild beasts of the desert will meet here with howling creatures [wolves and hyenas] and the [shaggy] wild goat will call to his fellow; the night monster will settle there and find a place of rest. |
34:15 There shall the arrow snake make her nest and lay her eggs and hatch them and gather her young under her shade; there shall the kites be gathered [also to breed] every one with its mate. |
34:16 Seek out of the book of the Lord and read: not one of these [details of prophecy] shall fail, none shall want {and} lack her mate [in fulfillment]. For the mouth [of the Lord] has commanded, and His Spirit has gathered them. |
34:17 And He has cast the lot for them, and His hand has portioned [Edom] to [the wild beasts] by measuring line. They shall possess it forever; from generation to generation they shall dwell in it. |