Isaiah 34:2-17 Because the wrath of the Lord is against all the nations, and his anger against this number of them to destroy them and deliver them up to slaughter;

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ² Because the wrath of the Lord is against all the nations, and his anger against this number of them to destroy them and deliver them up to slaughter; ³ therefore their wounded and dead shall be cast out, and the stench of them shall ascend; and the mountains shall be drenched with their blood; ⁴ and all the powers of the heavens shall waste away; and the heaven shall be rolled up like a scroll and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine and as leaves fall from a fig tree. ⁵ [J] My sword hath drunk deep in the heaven; behold it shall come down on Idumea and on the people justly doomed to destruction. ⁶ [p] The sword of the Lord hath been glutted with blood; it is pampered with suet; with the blood of he; goats and lambs, and with the suet of goats and rams. Because there is a sacrifice for the Lord in Bosor, and a great slaughter in Idumea; ⁷ therefore the fatlings shall fall with them, namely the rams and the bulls. And the land shall be drenched with blood, and glutted with their suet. ⁸ For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year for a judicial retribution to Sion: ⁹ and its torrents shall be turned into pitch, and its land into sulphur. And its land shall be like pitch burning day and night, ¹⁰ and which shall not be extinguished: for a long time the smoke of it shall ascend. During its generation it shall be desolate. ¹¹ And for a long period fowls and porcupines, ibises and crows shall dwell therein. And over it shall be stretched a line of devastation; and in it the onocentaurs shall dwell. ¹² The chiefs of it shall be no more; for its kings and its nobles shall be for destruction. ¹³ And in their cities shall spring up brakes; and brambles shall be its fortresses: and they shall be cots for Sirens, and for the ostrich's court. ¹⁴ And demons shall meet onocentaurs; and bellow one to the other. Onocentaurs shall there enjoy repose having found for themselves a place of rest. ¹⁵ There the porcupine hath made its nest; and the land hath safely kept its young. There the deer have assembled and seen each other's face. ¹⁶ I counted them and there is not one of them lost. They have not had occasion to seek each other: for the Lord hath issued orders to them; and his spirit hath brought them together. ¹⁷ And he will himself cast the lots for them, his hand hath meted the place for them to feed. For a long time you shall inherit it. [c] For generations of generations let them rest therein.