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Isaiah 34 Judgment on the Nations

Isaiah 34:1-17 Judgment on the Nations

Isaiah 34:1-4
1 Come near, you nations, to hear;
And heed, you people!
Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,
The world and all things that come forth from it.
2
For the indignation of the Lord is against all nations,
And His fury against all their armies;
He has utterly destroyed them,
He has given them over to the slaughter.
3
Also their slain shall be thrown out;
Their stench shall rise from their corpses,
And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4
All the host of heaven shall be dissolved,
And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll;
All their host shall fall down
As the leaf falls from the vine,
And as fruit falling from a fig tree.

Isaiah 34:8-12
8
For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance,
The year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9
Its streams shall be turned into pitch,
And its dust into brimstone;
Its land shall become burning pitch.
10
It shall not be quenched night or day;
Its smoke shall ascend forever.
From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
No one shall pass through it forever and ever.
11
But the pelican (owl) and the porcupine (hedgehog) shall possess it,
Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
And He shall stretch out over it
The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
12
They shall call its nobles to the kingdom,
But none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing.

Isaiah 34:16-17
16
“Search from the book of the Lord, and read:
Not one of these shall fail;
Not one shall lack her mate.
For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them.
17
He has cast the lot for them,
And His hand has divided it among them with a measuring line.
They shall possess it forever;
From generation to generation they shall dwell in it.”