65 lines
2.7 KiB
Markdown
65 lines
2.7 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 34
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1 Draw near, O nations, to hear,
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and give attention, O peoples!
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Let the earth hear, and all that fills it;
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the world, and all that comes from it.
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2 For the Lord is enraged against all the nations,
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and furious against all their host;
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he has devoted them to destruction, has given them over for slaughter.
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3 Their slain shall be cast out,
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and the stench of their corpses shall rise;
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the mountains shall flow with their blood.
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4 All the host of heaven shall rot away,
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and the skies roll up like a scroll.
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All their host shall fall,
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as leaves fall from the vine,
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like leaves falling from the fig tree.
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5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
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behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom,
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upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
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6 The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;
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it is gorged with fat,
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with the blood of lambs and goats,
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with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
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For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
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a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
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7 Wild oxen shall fall with them,
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and young steers with the mighty bulls.
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Their land shall drink its fill of blood,
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and their soil shall be gorged with fat.
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8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
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a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
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9 And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch,
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and her soil into sulfur;
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her land shall become burning pitch.
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10 Night and day it shall not be quenched;
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its smoke shall go up forever.
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From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
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none shall pass through it forever and ever.
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11 But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it,
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the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
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He shall stretch the line of confusion over it,
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and the plumb line of emptiness.
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12 Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom,
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and all its princes shall be nothing.
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13 Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,
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nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
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It shall be the haunt of jackals,
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an abode for ostriches.
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14 And wild animals shall meet with hyenas;
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the wild goat shall cry to his fellow;
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indeed, there the night bird settles
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and finds for herself a resting place.
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15 There the owl nests and lays
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and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow;
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indeed, there the hawks are gathered,
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each one with her mate.
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16 Seek and read from the book of the Lord:
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Not one of these shall be missing;
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none shall be without her mate.
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For the mouth of the Lord has commanded,
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and his Spirit has gathered them.
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17 He has cast the lot for them;
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his hand has portioned it out to them with the line;
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they shall possess it forever;
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from generation to generation they shall dwell in it. |