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Isaiah 34
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Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth
hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of
it. |
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| 34:2
For the indignation of
the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies:
he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath
delivered them to the slaughter. |
 (34:2-3)
"He hath delievered them to the slaughter. Their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and
the mountains shall be melted with their blood."
 "His fury upon all their armies.
Does God ever get furious?
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| 34:3
Their slain also
shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and
the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
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| 34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be
rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf
falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. |
"The host of heaven shall be dissolved ... and ... shall fall down"
The stars will dissolve and fall from the sky.
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| 34:5
For my sword shall
be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and
upon the people of my curse, to judgment. |
"For my sword shall be bathed in heaven."
Sounds like a place to stay away from.
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| 34:6
The sword of the
LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the
blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD
hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
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(34:6-8)"The sword of the LORD is filled with blood ... their land
shall be soaked with blood."
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| 34:7
And the unicorns shall
come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land
shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. |
"And the unicorns shall come
down with them."
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| 34:8
For it is the day of
the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of
Zion. |
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| 34:9
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof
into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. |
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| 34:10
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for
ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass
through it for ever and ever. |
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| 34:11
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the
raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of
confusion, and the stones of emptiness. |
"The cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it."
Edom will become a birdwatcher's paradise.
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| 34:12
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be
there, and all her princes shall be nothing. |
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| 34:13
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the
fortresses thereof: and it
shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. |
(34:13-14)
Dragons and
satyrs may not seem real to
you, but they did to the author of these verses.
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| 34:14
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the
island, and the satyr
shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find
for herself a place of rest. |
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| 34:15
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather
under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with
her mate. |
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| 34:16
Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail,
none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it
hath gathered them. |
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| 34:17
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them
by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall
they dwell therein.
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