Isaiah 34 - 35 — Legacy Standard Bible

Yahweh’s Wrath Against the Nations

34Draw near, ^aO nations, to hear; and pay attention, O peoples!^bLet the earth hear, as well as its fullness, the world and all that springs from it.²For the ^aindignation of Yahweh is against all the nations,And His wrath against all their ¹hosts;He has ²^,^bdevoted them to destruction;He has given them over to ^cslaughter.³So their slain will be ^acast out,And their corpses ¹will give off their ^bstench,And the mountains will ²be drenched with their ^cblood.⁴And ^aall the host of heaven will rot away,And the ^bsky will be rolled up like a scroll;All their hosts will also wither awayAs a leaf withers from the vine,Or as one withers from the fig tree.⁵For ^aMy sword is satiated in heaven;Behold, it shall descend for judgment upon ^bEdomAnd upon the people whom I have ^cdevoted to destruction.⁶The sword of Yahweh is filled with blood;It is ¹sated with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,With the fat of the kidneys of rams.For Yahweh has a sacrifice in ^aBozrahAnd a great slaughter in the land of ^bEdom.⁷^aAnd wild oxen will also ¹fall with them,And ^byoung bulls with strong ones;Thus their land will be ^csoaked with blood,And their dust ²become greasy with fat.⁸For Yahweh has a day of ^avengeance,A year of recompense for the ¹cause of Zion.⁹¹And its streams will be turned into pitch,And its dust into ^abrimstone,And its land will become burning pitch.¹⁰It will ^anot be quenched night or day;Its ^bsmoke will go up forever.From ^cgeneration to generation it will be laid waste;^dNone will pass through it forever and ever.¹¹But ¹^,^apelican and hedgehog will possess it,And ²owl and raven will dwell in it;And He will stretch over it the ^bline of utter formlessnessAnd the ³plumb line of utter void.¹²Its nobles—there is ^ano one thereWhom they may proclaim king—And all its princes will be ^bnon-existent.¹³And thorns will come up in its ^afortified towers,Weeds and thistles in its fortified cities;It will also be a haunt of ^bjackalsAnd an abode of ostriches.¹⁴And the desert ^acreatures will meet with the ¹wolves;The ²^,^bhairy goat also will cry to its kind;Surely, the ³night creature will obtain relief thereAnd will find itself a resting place.¹⁵The ¹owl will make its nest and find its escape there,And it will hatch its eggs and gather them in its shade.Surely, ^athe ²falcons will be gathered there,Every one with its kind.

¹⁶Seek from the ^abook of Yahweh, and read: Not one of these will be missing;None will lack its mate.For ¹^,^bHis mouth has commanded,And His Spirit has gathered them.

¹⁷He has cast the ^alot for them,And His hand has divided it to them by ^bline.They shall possess it forever;From ^cgeneration to generation they will dwell in it.

The Joy of the Redeemed

35The ^awilderness and the desert will be delighted,And the ¹^,^bArabah will rejoice and flourish;Like the crocus²It will ^aflourish profuselyAnd ^brejoice with rejoicing and shout of joy.The ^cglory of Lebanon will be given to it,The majesty of ^dCarmel and Sharon.They will see the ^eglory of Yahweh,The majesty of our God.³^aStrengthen limp hands, and give courage to the knees of the stumbling.⁴Say to those with an ^aanxious heart,“Be strong, fear not.Behold, your God will come with ^bvengeance;The ^crecompense of God will come,But He will ^dsave you.”⁵Then the ^aeyes of the blind will be opened,And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.⁶Then the ^alame will leap like a deer,And the ^btongue of the mute will shout for joy.For waters will break forth in the ^cwildernessAnd streams in the ¹Arabah.⁷Then the ¹scorched land will become a poolAnd the thirsty ground ^asprings of water;In the ^bhaunt of jackals, its resting place,Grass becomes reeds and rushes.⁸^aAnd a ¹roadway will be there, ^ba highway,And it will be called the Highway of ^cHoliness.The unclean will not pass by on it,But it will be for him who walks in that way,And ^dignorant fools will not wander on it.⁹No ^alion will be there,Nor will any vicious beast go up on it;¹These will not be found there.But ^bthe redeemed will walk there,¹⁰And ^athe ransomed of Yahweh will returnAnd come with joyful shouting to Zion,With everlasting gladness upon their heads.They will ¹attain delight and gladness,And ^bsorrow and sighing will flee away.