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Isaiah 34

17 aligned verses; 17 with wording or punctuation differences .

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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.
Come near, you nations, to hear ; and listen , you peoples : let the earth hear, and the fullness of it ; the world , and all things that come forth from it.
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.
For Yahweh has indignation against all the nations , and wrath against all their host: he has utterly destroyed them , he has delivered them to the slaughter.
Their slain will be left unburied , and the stench of their corpses will rise ; the mountains will flow with their blood.
Their slain also shall be cast out , and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up ; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
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.
All the host of the sky shall be dissolved , and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll ; and all their host shall fade away, as the leaf fades from off the vine, and as a fading [leaf] from the fig tree.
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 .
For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky: behold , it shall come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, to judgment .
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.
The sword of Yahweh is filled with blood , it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams ; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
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.
The wild - oxen shall come down with them, and the bulls with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness .
For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
Edom’s streams will be turned to tar , and her soil to sulfur ; her land will become a blazing pitch.
The streams of [Edom] shall be turned into pitch , and the dust of it into sulfur , and the land of it shall become burning pitch.
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.
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 forever and ever .
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 .
But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it ; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness .
No nobles will be left to proclaim a king , and all her princes will come to nothing.
They shall call the nobles of it to the kingdom , but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
Thorns shall come up in its palaces , nettles and thistles in the fortresses of it; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
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 .
The wild animals of the desert shall meet with the wolves , and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yes, the night -monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest .
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.
There shall the dart-snake make her nest , and lay , and hatch , and gather under her shade; yes, there shall the kites be gathered , everyone with her mate.
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.
Seek you out of the book of Yahweh, and read : no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate ; for my mouth , it has commanded , and his Spirit , it has gathered them .
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.
He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them by line: they shall possess it forever; from generation to generation shall they dwell therein .

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