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Isaiah 34

17 aligned verses; 17 with wording or punctuation differences .

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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.
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 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.
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 the stench of their dead bodies shall come up ; 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.
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.
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 has drunk its fill in the sky: behold , it shall come down on Edom, and on 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 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.
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 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 .
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 Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
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.
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 of it shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste ; none shall pass through it forever 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 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 .
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 of it to the kingdom , but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
No nobles will be left to proclaim a king , and all her princes will come to nothing.
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.
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 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 .
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 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.
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 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 .
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.
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 .
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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