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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, ye nations, to hear , And ye peoples , give attention, Hear doth the earth and its fulness , The world , and all its productions .
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 wrath ` is ' to Jehovah against all the nations , And fury against all their host, He hath devoted them to destruction , He hath given them to slaughter.
Their slain will be left unburied , and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.
And their wounded are cast out , And their carcases cause their stench to ascend, And melted have been mountains from 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.
And consumed have been all the host of the heavens, And rolled together as a book have been the heavens , And all their hosts do fade, As the fading of a leaf of a vine, And as the fading one of a 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 soaked in the heavens was My sword , Lo, on Edom it cometh down, On the people of My curse for 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.
A sword ` is ' to Jehovah -- it hath been full of blood , It hath been made fat with fatness, With blood of lambs and he- goats . With fat of kidneys of rams , For a sacrifice `is' to Jehovah 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.
And come down have reems with them, And bullocks with bulls, And soaked hath been their land from blood, And their dust from fatness is made fat.
For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
( For a day of vengeance `is' to Jehovah , A year of recompences for Zion's strife,)
Edom’s streams will be turned to tar , and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.
And turned have been her streams to pitch , And her dust to brimstone, And her land hath 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 .
By night and by day she is not quenched , To the age go up doth her smoke , From generation to generation she is waste, For ever and ever, none is passing into her .
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 .
And possess her do pelican and hedge-hog , And owl and raven dwell in her, And He hath stretched out over her A line of vacancy, and stones of emptiness .
No nobles will be left to proclaim a king , and all her princes will come to nothing .
` To ' the kingdom her freemen they call , But there are none there, And all her princes are at an end .
Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals , an abode for ostriches .
And gone up her palaces have thorns, Nettle and bramble `are' in her fortresses , And it hath been a habitation of dragons , A court for daughters of an ostrich .
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 .
And met have Ziim with Aiim , And the goat for its companion calleth, Only there rested hath the night -owl, And hath found for herself 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 made her nest hath the bittern, Yea, she layeth, and hath hatched, And hath gathered under her shadow , Only there gathered have been vultures , Each with its companion .
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 out of the book of Jehovah, and read, One of these hath not been lacking , None hath missed its companion, For My mouth -- it hath commanded , And His spirit -- He hath 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.
And He hath cast for them a lot, And His hand hath apportioned ` it ' to them by line, Unto the age they possess it , To all generations they dwell in it !

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