Isaiah, Chapter 34

1. Come near, you nations, to hear; and listen, you people: let the earth hear, and all that is in it; the world, and all things that come from it.    2. For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he has completely destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter.    3. Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be washed away with their blood.    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 falls off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.    5. For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.    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 has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.    7. And the wild oxen 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.    8. For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompense for the controversy of Zion.    9. And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.    10. It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke of it shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.    11. But the cormorant and the marsh bird shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out on it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.    12. They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.    13. 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.    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.    15. There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay eggs, and hatch, and gather her young under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.    16. Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: not one of these shall fail, none shall lack her mate: for my mouth has commanded, and his spirit has gathered them.    17. And he has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.