Isaiah 34:1-10 ▼

1 Come near, you nations, and listen! Pay attention, you people! The earth and everything it contains must listen, the world and everything that lives in it.

2 For the LORD is angry at all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will annihilate them and slaughter them.

3 Their slain will be left unburied, their corpses will stink; the hills will soak up their blood.

4 All the stars in the sky will fade away, the sky will roll up like a scroll; all its stars will wither, like a leaf withers and falls from a vine or a fig withers and falls from a tree.

5 He says, |Indeed, my sword has slaughtered heavenly powers. Look, it now descends on Edom, on the people I will annihilate in judgment.|

6 The LORD's sword is dripping with blood, it is covered with fat; it drips with the blood of young rams and goats and is covered with the fat of rams' kidneys. For the LORD is holding a sacrifice in Bozrah, a bloody slaughter in the land of Edom.

7 Wild oxen will be slaughtered along with them, as well as strong bulls. Their land is drenched with blood, their soil is covered with fat.

8 For the LORD has planned a day of revenge, a time when he will repay Edom for her hostility toward Zion.

9 Edom's streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch.

10 Night and day it will burn; its smoke will ascend continually. Generation after generation it will be a wasteland and no one will ever pass through it again.