Isaiah 34

Isaiah Chapter 34 KJV

1The indignation wherewith God avengeth his church of her enemies to their utter desolation. 16The certainty of the prophecy.
1 Come near, 1ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and aall that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
2 1For 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 1Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and 2the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4 And 1all 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 1my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down 2upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
6 1The 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 1aunicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be bsoaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
8 For it is 1the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
9 And 1the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
10 1It 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 1But the acormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he 2shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
12 1They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
13 1And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and 2a court for aowls.
14 aThe wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with bthe wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the cscreech 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 1the book of the Lord, and read: 2no one of these shall 3fail, none shall want her mate: for 4my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
17 1And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: 2they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
Isaiah 34