1 Come near and listen, you nations, pay attention, you peoples. Let the earth and its contents listen, the world and its entire population.
2 For Yahweh is angry with all the nations, enraged with all their hordes. He has vowed them to destruction, handed them over to slaughter.
3 Their dead will be thrown away, the stench will rise from their corpses, the mountains will run with their blood,
4 the entire array of heaven will fall apart. The heavens will be rolled up like a scroll and all their array will fade away, as fade the leaves falling from the vine, as fade those falling from the fig tree.
5 For my sword has drunk deep in the heavens: see how it now falls on Edom, on the people vowed to destruction, to punish them.
6 Yahweh's sword is gorged with blood, it is greasy with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 The wild oxen will fall with them, the bullocks with the bulls; their land will be drenched with blood and their dust will be greasy with fat.
8 For this will be Yahweh's day of vengeance, the year of retribution in Zion's lawsuit.
9 Its streams will turn into pitch, its dust into brimstone, its country will turn into blazing pitch.
10 Never quenched night or day, its smoke rising for ever, it will lie waste age after age, no one will travel through it for ever and ever.
11 It will be the haunt of pelican and hedgehog, the owl and the raven will live there; over it Yahweh will stretch the measuring line of chaos and the plumb-line of emptiness.
12 There will be no more nobles to proclaim the royal authority; there will be an end of all its princes.
13 Brambles will grow in its bastions, nettles and thorn-bushes in its fortresses, it will be the lair of jackals, an enclosure for ostriches.
14 Wild cats will meet hyenas there, satyr will call to satyr, there Lilith too will lurk and find somewhere to rest.
15 The snake will nest and lay eggs there, will hatch and gather its young into the shade; and there the vultures will assemble, each one with its mate.
16 Search in Yahweh's book, and read, not one of these will be missing, not one of them lacking a mate; for thus his mouth has ordained it, and his spirit has brought them together.
17 He has thrown the lot for each, his hand has measured out their share; they will possess it for ever, and live there age after age.
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Isaiah 34 describes God's judgment on nations, especially Edom, because of his rebellion against him. The chapter emphasizes the total destruction and the desolation that will come over these wicked nations as a result of divine justice. Below are five verses related to the topics addressed in Isaiah 34:
Jeremiah 49:17: "Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will cut Babylon and make it an object of astonishment and derision; empty will be forever." This verse talks about the fall of Babylon, one of the nations that received God's judgment.
Naum 1:8: "With a flood that will pass, he will end her place; darkness will persecute her enemies." Naum prophesies the destruction of Nineveh, an wicked city that was judged by God because of his cruelty and sin.
Ezekiel 25:13: "Therefore, the Lord God says, I will also extend my hand over Edom, and take men and animals from Him; and I will become desert; Ezekiel prophesies the destruction of Edom, a neighboring nation of Israel who rebelled against God and was judged by him.
Joel 3:19: "Egypt will become in desolation, and Edom in a deserted desert, because of violence against the children of Judah, whose blood has poured into his land." Joel prophesies the destruction of Edom because of his violence against the children of Judah.
Amos 1:11: "Thus saith the Lord, by three transgressions of Edom, and for four I will not remove the punishment, because he persecuted with sword to his brother, and violated his bowels; your outrage forever. " Amos denounces Edom for his cruelty and violence against the people of Israel, and prophesies that God will judge them for their sins.
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