34 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 8 For
it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompences 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. 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. 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. 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 an 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, and hatch, and gather 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: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth
it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. 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.