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| 34:1 |
Come near, you nations, and listen; pay attention, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world, and all that comes out of it!
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| 34:2 |
The LORD is angry with all nations; his wrath is upon all their armies. He will totally destroy them, he will give them over to slaughter.
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| 34:3 |
Their slain will be thrown out, their dead bodies will send up a stench; the mountains will be soaked with their blood.
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| 34:4 |
All the stars of the heavens will be dissolved and the sky rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree.
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| 34:5 |
My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; see, it descends in judgment on Edom, the people I have totally destroyed.
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| 34:6 |
The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood, it is covered with fat-- the blood of lambs and goats, fat from the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in Edom.
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| 34:7 |
And the wild oxen will fall with them, the bull calves and the great bulls. Their land will be drenched with blood, and the dust will be soaked with fat.
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| 34:8 |
For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion's cause.
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| 34:9 |
Edom's streams will be turned into pitch, her dust into burning sulfur; her land will become blazing pitch!
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| 34:10 |
It will not be quenched night and day; its smoke will rise forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever pass through it again.
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| 34:11 |
The desert owl and screech owl will possess it; the great owl and the raven will nest there. God will stretch out over Edom the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of desolation.
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| 34:12 |
Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom, all her princes will vanish away.
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| 34:13 |
Thorns will overrun her citadels, nettles and brambles her strongholds. She will become a haunt for jackals, a home for owls.
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| 34:14 |
Desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and wild goats will bleat to each other; there the night creatures will also repose and find for themselves places of rest.
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| 34:15 |
The owl will nest there and lay eggs, she will hatch them, and care for her young under the shadow of her wings; there also the falcons will gather, each with its mate.
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| 34:16 |
Look in the scroll of the LORD and read: None of these will be missing, not one will lack her mate. For it is his mouth that has given the order, and his Spirit will gather them together.
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| 34:17 |
He allots their portions; his hand distributes them by measure. They will possess it forever and dwell there from generation to generation.
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