New American Standard Bible 2020

Isaiah 34:5-10

5For 1My sword has drunk its fill in heaven; Behold it shall descend for judgment upon 2Edom, And upon the people whom I have 3designated 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 4Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of 5Edom.7 6Wild oxen will also 7fall with them And 8young bulls with strong ones; So their land will be 9soaked with blood, And their dust 10become greasy with fat.8For the Lord has a day of 11vengeance, A year of retribution for the 12cause of Zion.9 13Its streams will be turned into pitch, And its loose earth into 14brimstone, And its land will become burning pitch.10It will 15not be extinguished night or day; Its 16smoke will go up forever. From 17generation to generation it will be desolate; 18None will pass through it forever and ever.

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1. Isaiah 34:5 Deut 32:41, 42; Jer 46:10; Ezek 21:3-5 ↩
2. 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 ↩
3. Isaiah 34:5 Is 24:6; 43:28 ↩
4. Isaiah 34:6 Is 63:1; Jer 49:13 ↩
5. Isaiah 34:6 Is 63:1 ↩
6. Isaiah 34:7 Num 23:22; Ps 22:21 ↩
7. Isaiah 34:7 Lit go down ↩
8. Isaiah 34:7 Ps 68:30; Jer 50:27 ↩
9. Isaiah 34:7 Is 63:6 ↩
10. Isaiah 34:7 Lit made fat ↩
11. Isaiah 34:8 Is 13:6; 35:4; 47:3; 61:2; 63:4 ↩
12. Isaiah 34:8 Or controversy ↩
13. Isaiah 34:9 I.e., Edom’s ↩
14. Isaiah 34:9 Deut 29:23; Ps 11:6; Is 30:33 ↩
15. Isaiah 34:10 Is 1:31; 66:24 ↩
16. Isaiah 34:10 Rev 14:11; 19:3 ↩
17. Isaiah 34:10 Is 13:20-22; 24:1; 34:10-15; Mal 1:3, 4 ↩
18. Isaiah 34:10 Ezek 29:11 ↩

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