Isaiah 34
34Draw in close now, nations. Listen carefully, you people. Pay attention! Earth, you too, and everything in you. World, and all that comes from you.H7126H1471H8085H7181H3816H776H8085H4393H8398H66312And here's why: GOD is angry, good and angry with all the nations, So blazingly angry at their arms and armies that he's going to rid earth of them, wipe them out.H7110H3068H1471H2534H6635H2763H5414H28743The corpses, thrown in a heap, will stink like the town dump in midsummer, Their blood flowing off the mountains like creeks in spring runoff.H2491H7993H889H5927H6297H2022H4549H18184Stars will fall out of the sky like overripe, rotting fruit in the orchard, And the sky itself will be folded up like a blanket and put away in a closet. All that army of stars, shriveled to nothing, like leaves and fruit in autumn, dropping and rotting!H6635H8064H4743H8064H1556H5612H6635H5034H5929H5034H1612H5034H83845"Once I've finished with earth and sky, I'll start in on Edom. I'll come down hard on Edom, a people I've slated for total termination."H2719H7301H8064H3381H123H5971H2764H49416GOD has a sword, thirsty for blood and more blood, a sword hungry for well-fed flesh, Lamb and goat blood, the suet-rich kidneys of rams. Yes, GOD has scheduled a sacrifice in Bozrah, the capital, the whole country of Edom a slaughterhouse.H2719H3068H4390H1818H1878H2459H1818H3733H6260H2459H3629H352H3068H2077H1224H1419H2874H776H1237A wholesale slaughter, wild animals and farm animals alike slaughtered. The whole country soaked with blood, all the ground greasy with fat.H7214H3381H6499H47H776H7301H1818H6083H1878H24598It's GOD's scheduled time for vengeance, the year all Zion's accounts are settled.H3117H3068H5359H8141H7966H7379H67269Edom's streams will flow sluggish, thick with pollution, the soil sterile, poisoned with waste, The whole country a smoking, stinking garbage dump—H5158H2015H2203H6083H1614H776H1197H220310The fires burning day and night, the skies black with endless smoke. Generation after generation of wasteland— no more travelers through this country!H3518H3915H3119H6227H5927H5769H1755H1755H2717H5674H5331H533111Vultures and skunks will police the streets; owls and crows will feel at home there. God will reverse creation. Chaos! He will cancel fertility. Emptiness!H6893H7090H3423H3244H6158H7931H5186H6957H8414H68H92212Leaders will have no one to lead. They'll name it No Kingdom There, A country where all kings and princes are unemployed.H7121H2715H4410H8269H65713Thistles will take over, covering the castles, fortresses conquered by weeds and thornbushes. Wild dogs will prowl the ruins, ostriches have the run of the place.H5518H5927H759H7057H2336H4013H5116H8577H2681H1323H328414Wildcats and hyenas will hunt together, demons and devils dance through the night. The night-demon Lilith, evil and rapacious, will establish permanent quarters.H6728H6298H338H8163H7121H7453H3917H7280H4672H449415Scavenging carrion birds will breed and brood, infestations of ominous evil.H7091H7077H4422H1234H1716H6738H1772H6908H802H746816Get and read GOD's book: None of this is going away, this breeding, brooding evil. GOD has personally commanded it all. His Spirit set it in motion.H1875H5612H3068H7121H259H2007H5737H802H6485H7468H6310H6680H7307H690817GOD has assigned them their place, decreed their fate in detail. This is permanent— generation after generation, the same old thing.H5307H1486H3027H2505H6957H3423H5704H5769H1755H1755H7931
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