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34.5
ISAIAH
- And upon the people of My ban, to judgment.
- 6The sword of the Lord is filled with blood,
- It is made fat with fatness,
- With the blood of lambs and goats,
- With the fat of the kidneys of rams;
- For the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah,
- And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
- 7And the wild-oxen shall come down with them,
- And the bullocks with the bulls;
- And their land shall be drunken with blood,
- And their dust made fat with fatness.
- 8For the Lord hath a day of vengeance,
- A year of recompense for the controversy of Zion.
- 9And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch,
- And the dust thereof into brimstone,
- And the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
- 10It shall not be quenched night nor day,
- The smoke thereof shall go up for ever;
- From generation to generation it shall lie waste:
- None shall pass through it for ever and ever.
- 11But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it,
- And the owl and the raven shall dwell therein;
- And He shall stretch over it
- The line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
- 12As for her nobles, none shall be there to be called to the kingdom;
- And all her princes shall be nothing.
- 13And thorns shall come up in her palaces,
- Nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof;
- And it shall be a habitation of wild-dogs,
- An enclosure for ostriches.
- 14And the wild-cats shall meet with the jackals,
- And the satyr shall cry to his fellow;
- Yea, the night-monster shall repose there,
- And shall find her a place of rest.
- 15There shall the arrowsnake make her nest, and lay,
- And hatch, and brood under her shadow;
- Yea, there shall the kites be gathered,
- Every one with her mate.
- 16Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read;
- No one of these shall be missing,
- None shall want her mate;
- For My mouth it hath commanded,
- And the breath thereof it hath gathered them.
- 17And He hath cast the lot for them,
- And His hand hath divided it unto them by line;
- They shall possess it for ever,
- From generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
- 35The wilderness and the parched land shall be glad;
- And the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
- 2It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice,
- Even with joy and singing;
- The glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it,
- The excellency of Carmel and Sharon;
- They shall see the glory of the Lord,
- The excellency of our God.
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