King James VersionIsaiah34

Isaiah

1 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. 2 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. 3 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. 4 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. 5 For my sword shall be bathed in heav­en: be­hold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the peo­ple of my curse, to judg­ment. 6 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. 7 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. 8 For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of rec­om­pences for the con­tro­ver­sy of Zion. 9 And the streams there­of shall be turned into pitch, and the dust there­of into brim­stone, and the land there­of shall be­come burn­ing pitch. 10 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. 11 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. 12 They shall call the no­bles there­of to the king­dom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be noth­ing. 13 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. 14 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. 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 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. 17 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.