New Living Translation

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A Message for the Nations

Come here and listen, O nations of the earth.
Let the world and everything in it hear my words.

1

Judgment on the Nations

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 LORD is enraged against the nations.
His fury is against all their armies.
He will completely destroya them,
dooming them to slaughter.

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

Their dead will be left unburied,
and the stench of rotting bodies will fill the land.
The mountains will flow with their blood.

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

The heavens above will melt away
and disappear like a rolled-up scroll.
The stars will fall from the sky
like withered leaves from a grapevine,
or shriveled figs from a fig tree.

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.

5

And when my sword has finished its work in the heavens,
it will fall upon Edom,
the nation I have marked for destruction.

5

“For My sword shall be bathed in heaven;
Indeed it shall come down on Edom,
And on the people of My curse, for judgment.

6

The sword of the LORD is drenched with blood
and covered with fat —
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of rams prepared for sacrifice.
Yes, the LORD will offer a sacrifice in the city of Bozrah.
He will make a mighty slaughter in Edom.

6

The sword of the Lord is filled with blood,
It is made [a]overflowing with fatness,
With the blood of lambs and goats,
With the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

7

Even men as strong as wild oxen will die —
the young men alongside the veterans.
The land will be soaked with blood
and the soil enriched with fat.

7

The wild oxen shall come down with them,
And the young bulls with the mighty bulls;
Their land shall be soaked with blood,
And their dust [b]saturated with fatness.”

8

For it is the day of the LORD’s revenge,
the year when Edom will be paid back for all it did to Israel.b

8

For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance,
The year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

9

The streams of Edom will be filled with burning pitch,
and the ground will be covered with fire.

9

Its streams shall be turned into pitch,
And its dust into brimstone;
Its land shall become burning pitch.

10

This judgment on Edom will never end;
the smoke of its burning will rise forever.
The land will lie deserted from generation to generation.
No one will live there anymore.

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

It will be haunted by the desert owl and the screech owl,
the great owl and the raven.c
For God will measure that land carefully;
he will measure it for chaos and destruction.

11

But the [c]pelican and the [d]porcupine 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

It will be called the Land of Nothing,
and all its nobles will soon be gone.d

12

They shall call its nobles to the kingdom,
But none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing.

13

Thorns will overrun its palaces;
nettles and thistles will grow in its forts.
The ruins will become a haunt for jackals
and a home for owls.

13

And thorns shall come up in its palaces,
Nettles and brambles in its fortresses;
It shall be a habitation of jackals,
A courtyard for ostriches.

14

Desert animals will mingle there with hyenas,
their howls filling the night.
Wild goats will bleat at one another among the ruins,
and night creaturese will come there to rest.

14

The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the [e]jackals,
And the wild goat shall bleat to its companion;
Also [f]the night creature shall rest there,
And find for herself a place of rest.

15

There the owl will make her nest and lay her eggs.
She will hatch her young and cover them with her wings.
And the buzzards will come,
each one with its mate.

15

There the arrow snake shall make her nest and lay eggs
And hatch, and gather them under her shadow;
There also shall the hawks be gathered,
Every one with her mate.

16

Search the book of the LORD,
and see what he will do.
Not one of these birds and animals will be missing,
and none will lack a mate,
for the LORD has promised this.
His Spirit will make it all come true.

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 surveyed and divided the land
and deeded it over to those creatures.
They will possess it forever,
from generation to generation.

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.”

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Isaiah 34

Isaiah 34