34:1 Draw near, ye nations; and hearken, ye
princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the
people that are therein.
34:2 For the wrath of the Lord is upon all nations, and [his] anger upon the
number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter.
34:3 And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their [ill]
savour shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.
34:4 And all the powers of the heavens shall melt, and the sky shall be
rolled up like a scroll: and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a
vine, and as leaves fall from a fig-tree.
34:5 My sword has been made drunk in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon
Idumea, and with judgement upon the people doomed to destruction.
34:6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat,
with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams: for
the Lord has a sacrifice in Bosor, and a great slaughter in Idumea.
34:7 And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls;
and the land shall be soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.
34:8 For it is the day of judgement of the Lord, and the year of the
recompence of Sion in judgement.
34:9 And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur;
and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;
34:10 and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be
made desolate throughout her generations,
34:11 and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall
dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and
satyrs shall dwell in it.
34:12 Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be
destroyed.
34:13 And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strong holds:
and they shall be habitations of monsters, and a court of ostriches.
34:14 And devils shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the
other: there shall satyrs rest, having found for themselves [a place of]
rest.
34:15 There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely
preserved its young: there have the deer met, and seen one another's faces.
34:16 They passed by in [full] number, and not one of them perished: they
sought not one another; for the Lord commanded them, and his Spirit gathered
them.
34:17 And he shall cast lots for them, and his hand has portioned out
[their] pasture, [saying], Ye shall inherit [the land] for ever: they shall
rest on it [through] all generations. |
34:1 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.
34:2 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.
34:3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out
of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
34:4 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.
34:5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon
Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
34:6 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 Idumea.
34:7 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.
34:8 For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompences
for the controversy of Zion.
34:9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust
thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
34:10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up
for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass
through it for ever and ever.
34:11 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.
34:12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be
there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
34:13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the
fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court
for owls.
34:14 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.
34:15 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.
34:16 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.
34:17 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. |