Isaiah 34 Draw near, ye nations, and hearken, ye rulers; let the earth hear, and they that dwell therein, the world, and the people that is in it.

Ottley⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Draw near, ye nations, and hearken, ye rulers; let the earth hear, and they that dwell therein, the world, and the people that is in it. ² For the wrath of the Lord is against all the nations, and anger against the muster of them; to destroy them, and to give them over to slaughter. ³ And their wounded shall be cast forth, and their dead, and their stink shall go up, and the mountains shall be wet with their blood. ⁴ And the heaven shall be rolled up like a book, and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig tree. ⁵ My sword is drunken in the heaven; behold, it shall descend upon Idumaea, and upon the people of perdition with judgment. ⁶ The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is enriched with fatness, and with the fat of goats and rams. For there is a sacrifice to the Lord in the land of Bozrah, and a great slaughter in Idumaea. ⁷ And the chief ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the earth shall be drunken with the blood, and shall be filled with the fat of them. ⁸ For it is the day of the judgment of the Lord, and the year of the recompense of the judgment of Zion. ⁹ And the torrents thereof shall be turned into pitch, and her land into brimstone; and her land shall be burning like pitch, ¹⁰ By night and day; and shall not be quenched for ever; and the smoke thereof shall ascend upward, it shall be desolated for generations. ¹¹ And birds, and hedgehogs, and ibises, and ravens shall dwell therein; and there shall be cast over it the measuring line of desolation, and satyrs shall dwell therein. ¹² Her rulers shall not be; for her kings and her rulers and her great ones shall come to destruction. ¹³ And the thorn shall grow up upon her cities and upon her strongholds: and it shall be lurking places for owls and a court of ostriches. ¹⁴ And demons shall meet with satyrs, and shall call one to another; there shall satyrs rest, for they have found them a resting-place. ¹⁵ There doth the hedgehog nest, and the earth keepeth her young in safety; there do the hinds meet, and see one another's faces: ¹⁶ By number come they, and not one of them perisheth; none seeketh another; for the Lord hath commanded them, and his spirit hath brought them together. ¹⁷ And he himself shall cast lots for them, and his hand divideth (for them) to feed; inherit it for ever; for generations of generations shall they rest thereon.