34:1 Draw near, ye nations; and hearken, ye
princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the
people that are therein.
34:2 For the wrath of Yehovah is upon all nations, and [his] anger upon the
number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter.
34:3 And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their [ill]
savour shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.
34:4 And all the powers of the heavens shall melt, and the sky shall be
rolled up like a scroll: and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a
vine, and as leaves fall from a fig-tree.
34:5 My sword has been made drunk in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon
Idumea, and with judgement upon the people doomed to destruction.
34:6 The sword of Yehovah is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat,
with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams: for
Yehovah has a sacrifice in Bosor, and a great slaughter in Idumea.
34:7 And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls;
and the land shall be soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.
34:8 For it is the day of judgement of Yehovah, and the year of the
recompence of Zion in judgement.
34:9 And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur;
and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;
34:10 and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be
made desolate throughout her generations,
34:11 and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall
dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and
satyrs shall dwell in it.
34:12 Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be
destroyed.
34:13 And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strong holds:
and they shall be habitations of monsters, and a court of ostriches.
34:14 And devils shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the
other: there shall satyrs rest, having found for themselves [a place of]
rest.
34:15 There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely
preserved its young: there have the deer met, and seen one another's faces.
34:16 They passed by in [full] number, and not one of them perished: they
sought not one another; for Yehovah commanded them, and his Spirit gathered
them.
34:17 And he shall cast lots for them, and his hand has portioned out
[their] pasture, [saying], Ye shall inherit [the land] for ever: they shall
rest on it [through] all generations. |
34:1 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.
34:2 For the indignation of Yehovah is upon all nations, and his fury upon
all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to
the slaughter.
34:3 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.
34:4 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.
34:5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon
Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
34:6 The sword of Yehovah 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 Yehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in
the land of Idumea.
34:7 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.
34:8 For it is the day of Yehovah's vengeance, and the year of recompences
for the controversy of Zion.
34:9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust
thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
34:10 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.
34:11 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.
34:12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be
there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
34:13 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.
34:14 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.
34:15 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.
34:16 Seek ye out of the book of Yehovah, 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.
34:17 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. |