English Bible Presentation Sharing - Isaiah Book, chapter 34, verse 17 in Erven Version

Isaiah 34 : 1 (ERVEN)

All you nations, come near and listen! Listen, all you people. The earth and everyone on it should listen to these things. Everything in this world should hear this.

Isaiah 34 : 2 (ERVEN)

The Lord is angry with all the nations and their armies. He will destroy them all and put them to death.

Isaiah 34 : 3 (ERVEN)

Their bodies will be thrown outside. The stink will rise from the bodies, and the blood will flow down the mountains.

Isaiah 34 : 4 (ERVEN)

The skies will be rolled shut like a scroll, and the stars will die and fall like leaves from a vine or a fig tree. All the stars in the sky will rot away.

Isaiah 34 : 5 (ERVEN)

The Lord says, "This will happen when my sword in the sky is covered with blood." Look, the Lord's sword will cut through Edom. He judged them guilty, and they must die.

Isaiah 34 : 6 (ERVEN)

He decided there should be a time for killing in Bozrah and in Edom. So the Lord's sword is covered with blood and fat. The blood is from the "goats." The fat is from the kidneys of the "rams."

Isaiah 34 : 7 (ERVEN)

So the rams, the cattle, and the strong bulls will be killed. The land will be filled with their blood. The dirt will be covered with their fat.

Isaiah 34 : 8 (ERVEN)

This will happen because the Lord has chosen a time for punishment. He has chosen a year when people must pay for the wrong they did to Zion.

Isaiah 34 : 9 (ERVEN)

Edom's rivers will be like hot tar. Edom's ground will be like burning sulfur.

Isaiah 34 : 10 (ERVEN)

The fires will burn day and night�no one will stop the fire. The smoke will rise from Edom forever. The land will be destroyed forever and ever. No one will ever travel through that land again.

Isaiah 34 : 11 (ERVEN)

Birds and small animals will own that land. Owls and ravens will live there. People will call it the "Empty Desert."

Isaiah 34 : 12 (ERVEN)

The freemen and leaders will all be gone, and there will be nothing left for them to rule.

Isaiah 34 : 13 (ERVEN)

Thorns and wild bushes will grow in all the beautiful homes there. Wild dogs and owls will live in them. Wild animals will make their homes there. Big birds will live in the grasses that grow there.

Isaiah 34 : 14 (ERVEN)

Wild cats will live there with hyenas. Wild goats will call to their friends. Night animals will spend some time there and find a place to rest.

Isaiah 34 : 15 (ERVEN)

Snakes will make their homes there and lay their eggs. The eggs will open, and small snakes will crawl from the dark places. Birds that eat dead things will gather there like women visiting their friends.

Isaiah 34 : 16 (ERVEN)

Look at the Lord's scroll and read what is written there. Nothing is missing. It is written in that scroll that these animals will be together. God said he will gather them together, so his Spirit will gather them together.

Isaiah 34 : 17 (ERVEN)

God decided what he should do with them, and then he chose a place for them. He drew a line and showed them their land. So the animals will own that land forever. They will live there year after year.