Isaiah 34 : 1 (NCV)
All you nations, come near and listen. Pay attention, you peoples! The earth and all the people in it should listen, the world and everything in it.
Isaiah 34 : 2 (NCV)
The Lord is angry with all the nations; he is angry with their armies. He will destroy them and kill them all.
Isaiah 34 : 3 (NCV)
Their bodies will be thrown outside. The stink will rise from the bodies, and the blood will flow down the mountains.
Isaiah 34 : 4 (NCV)
The sun, moon, and stars will dissolve, and the sky will be rolled up like a scroll. The stars will fall like dead leaves from a vine or dried-up figs from a fig tree.
Isaiah 34 : 5 (NCV)
The Lord's sword in the sky is covered with blood. and destroy those people as an offering to the Lord.
Isaiah 34 : 6 (NCV)
The Lord's sword will be covered with blood; it will be covered with fat, with the blood from lambs and goats, with the fat from the kidneys of sheep. and much killing in Edom.
Isaiah 34 : 7 (NCV)
The oxen will be killed, and the cattle and the strong bulls. The land will be filled with their blood, and the dirt will be covered with their fat.
Isaiah 34 : 8 (NCV)
The Lord has chosen a time for punishment. He has chosen a year when people must pay for the wrongs they did to Jerusalem.
Isaiah 34 : 9 (NCV)
Edom's rivers will be like hot tar. Its dirt will be like burning sulfur. Its land will be like burning tar.
Isaiah 34 : 10 (NCV)
The fires will burn night and day; the smoke will rise from Edom forever. Year after year that land will be empty; no one will ever travel through that land again.
Isaiah 34 : 11 (NCV)
Birds and small animals will own that land, and owls and ravens will live there. God will make it an empty wasteland; it will have nothing left in it.
Isaiah 34 : 12 (NCV)
The important people will have no one left to rule them; the leaders will all be gone.
Isaiah 34 : 13 (NCV)
Thorns will take over the strong towers, and wild bushes will grow in the walled cities. It will be a home for wild dogs and a place for owls to live.
Isaiah 34 : 14 (NCV)
Desert animals will live with the hyenas, and wild goats will call to their friends. Night animals will live there and find a place of rest.
Isaiah 34 : 15 (NCV)
Owls will nest there and lay eggs. When they hatch open, the owls will gather their young under their wings. Hawks will gather with their own kind.
Isaiah 34 : 16 (NCV)
Look at the Lord's scroll and read what is written there: None of these will be missing; none will be without its mate. God has given the command, so his Spirit will gather them together.
Isaiah 34 : 17 (NCV)
God has divided the land among them, and he has given them each their portion. So they will own that land forever and will live there year after year.
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