New American Standard Bible 2020

Isaiah 34:1-8

1Come near, 1you nations, to hear; and listen, you peoples! 2Let the earth and 3all it contains hear, and the world and all that springs from it.2For the Lord’s 4anger is against all the nations, And His wrath against all their armies. He has 5 6utterly destroyed them, He has turned them over to 7slaughter.3So their slain will be 8thrown out, And their corpses 9will give off their 10stench, And the mountains will 11be drenched with their 12blood.4And 13all the heavenly 14lights will 15wear away, And the 16sky will be rolled up like a scroll; All its 17lights will also wither away As a leaf withers from the vine, Or as one withers from the fig tree.5For 18My sword has drunk its fill in heaven; Behold it shall descend for judgment upon 19Edom, And upon the people whom I have 20designated for destruction.6The sword of the Lord is filled with 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 21Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of 22Edom.7 23Wild oxen will also 24fall with them And 25young bulls with strong ones; So their land will be 26soaked with blood, And their dust 27become greasy with fat.8For the Lord has a day of 28vengeance, A year of retribution for the 29cause of Zion.

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1. Isaiah 34:1 Ps 49:1; Is 41:1; 43:9 ↩
2. Isaiah 34:1 Deut 32:1; Is 1:2 ↩
3. Isaiah 34:1 Lit its fullness ↩
4. Isaiah 34:2 Is 26:20 ↩
5. Isaiah 34:2 Lit put under the ban ↩
6. Isaiah 34:2 Is 13:5; 24:1 ↩
7. Isaiah 34:2 Is 30:25; 63:6; 65:12 ↩
8. Isaiah 34:3 Is 14:19 ↩
9. Isaiah 34:3 Lit their stench will go up ↩
10. Isaiah 34:3 Joel 2:20; Amos 4:10 ↩
11. Isaiah 34:3 Lit dissolve ↩
12. Isaiah 34:3 Ezek 14:19; 35:6; 38:22 ↩
13. Isaiah 34:4 Is 13:13; 51:6; Ezek 32:7, 8; Joel 2:31; Matt 24:29; 2 Pet 3:10 ↩
14. Isaiah 34:4 Lit host; i.e., sun, stars, etc. ↩
15. Isaiah 34:4 Lit rot ↩
16. Isaiah 34:4 Rev 6:12-14 ↩
17. Isaiah 34:4 Lit host; i.e., sun, stars, etc. ↩
18. Isaiah 34:5 Deut 32:41, 42; Jer 46:10; Ezek 21:3-5 ↩
19. Isaiah 34:5 Is 63:1; Jer 49:7, 8, 20; Ezek 25:12-14; 35:1-15; Amos 1:11, 12; Obad 1-14; Mal 1:4 ↩
20. Isaiah 34:5 Is 24:6; 43:28 ↩
21. Isaiah 34:6 Is 63:1; Jer 49:13 ↩
22. Isaiah 34:6 Is 63:1 ↩
23. Isaiah 34:7 Num 23:22; Ps 22:21 ↩
24. Isaiah 34:7 Lit go down ↩
25. Isaiah 34:7 Ps 68:30; Jer 50:27 ↩
26. Isaiah 34:7 Is 63:6 ↩
27. Isaiah 34:7 Lit made fat ↩
28. Isaiah 34:8 Is 13:6; 35:4; 47:3; 61:2; 63:4 ↩
29. Isaiah 34:8 Or controversy ↩

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