Isaiah 34
The LORD's Wrath upon the Nations |
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Come near, ye nations, to hear; and
hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the
world, and all things that come forth of it.
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For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury
upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath
delivered them to the slaughter.
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Their slain also shall be cast out, and
their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains
shall be melted with their blood.
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And all the host of heaven shall be
dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and
all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the
vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. Rev. 6.13, 14
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For my sword shall be bathed in heaven:
behold, it shall come down upon Idume'a, Is. 63.1-6 · Jer. 49.7-22 · Ezek.
25.12-14 ; 35.1-15 · Amos 1.11, 12 · 1.14 · Mal. 1.2-5 and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
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The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with
fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat
of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a
sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of
Idume'a.
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And the unicorns shall come down with
them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be
soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
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For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompenses
for the controversy of Zion.
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And the streams thereof shall be turned
into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land
thereof shall become burning pitch.
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It shall not be quenched night nor day;
the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: Rev. 14.11 ; 19.3 from
generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through
it for ever and ever.
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But the cormorant and the bittern shall
possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he
shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of
emptiness.
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They shall call the nobles thereof to the
kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall
be nothing.
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And thorns shall come up in her
palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it
shall be a habitation of dragons, and a court for
owls.
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The wild beasts of the desert shall also
meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to
his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for
herself a place of rest.
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There shall the great owl make her nest,
and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the
vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
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Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall
want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it
hath gathered them.
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And he hath cast the lot for them, and
his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it
for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell
therein.
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