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65 lines
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# Chapter 34
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1 Come near, you nations, to hear;
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And heed, you people!
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Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,
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The world and all things that come forth from it.
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2 For the indignation of the Lord is against all nations,
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And His fury against all their armies;
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He has utterly destroyed them,
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He has given them over to the slaughter.
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3 Also their slain shall be thrown out;
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Their stench shall rise from their corpses,
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And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
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4 All the host of heaven shall be dissolved,
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And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll;
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All their host shall fall down
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As the leaf falls from the vine,
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And as fruit falling from a fig tree.
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5 “For My sword shall be bathed in heaven;
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Indeed it shall come down on Edom,
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And on the people of My curse, for judgment.
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6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood,
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It is made overflowing with fatness,
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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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And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
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7 The wild oxen shall come down with them,
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And the young bulls with the mighty bulls;
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Their land shall be soaked with blood,
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And their dust saturated with fatness.”
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8 For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance,
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The year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
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9 Its streams shall be turned into pitch,
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And its dust into brimstone;
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Its land shall become burning pitch.
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10 It shall not be quenched night or day;
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Its smoke shall ascend forever.
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From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
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No one shall pass through it forever and ever.
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11 But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it,
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Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
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And He shall stretch out over it
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The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
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12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom,
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But none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing.
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13 And thorns shall come up in its palaces,
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Nettles and brambles in its fortresses;
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It shall be a habitation of jackals,
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A courtyard for ostriches.
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14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the jackals,
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And the wild goat shall bleat to its companion;
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Also the night creature shall rest there,
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And find for herself a place of rest.
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15 There the arrow snake shall make her nest and lay eggs
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And hatch, and gather them under her shadow;
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There also shall the hawks be gathered,
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Every one with her mate.
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16 “Search from the book of the Lord, and read:
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Not one of these shall fail;
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Not one shall lack her mate.
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For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them.
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17 He has cast the lot for them,
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And His hand has divided it among them with a measuring line.
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They shall possess it forever;
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From generation to generation they shall dwell in it.” |