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Isaiah 34

17 aligned verses; 17 with wording or punctuation differences .

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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.
Come near, O nations, to listen ; pay attention , O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it.
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.
The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies . He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.
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.
Their slain will be left unburied , and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.
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.
All the stars of heaven will be dissolved . The skies will be rolled up like a scroll , and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.
For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold , it shall come down upon Idumea , and upon the people of my curse, to judgment .
When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens , then it will come down upon Edom , upon the people I have devoted to destruction .
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 .
The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood . It drips with fat— with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams . For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom .
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 .
And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat .
For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone , and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
Edom’s streams will be turned to tar , and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.
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 .
It will not be quenched day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate ; no one will ever again pass through it.
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 .
The desert owl and screech owl will possess it , and the great owl and raven will dwell in it . The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction .
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there , and all her princes shall be nothing.
No nobles will be left to proclaim a king , and all her princes will come to nothing.
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 .
Her towers will be overgrown with thorns , her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches .
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 .
The desert creatures will meet with hyenas , and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose .
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.
There the owl will make her nest ; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow . Even there the birds of prey will gather , each with its mate.
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 .
Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing , not one will lack her mate , because He has ordered it by His mouth , and He will gather them by His Spirit.
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 .
He has allotted their portion; His hand has distributed it by measure. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation.

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