AB - Isaiah - 34

34:1  Draw near, you nations; and hearken, you princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people 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 stench 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 Edom, and with judgment 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 Bozrah, and a great slaughter in Edom.

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 judgment of the Lord, and the year of the recompense of Zion in judgment.

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 strongholds; and they shall be habitations of monsters, and a court of ostriches.

34:14  And demons shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the other; there shall the 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, You shall inherit the land forever; they shall rest on it throughout all generations.