1 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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Hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?. 36:12
Trivia: According to Isaiah 14, what will come out of the cockatrice?
1 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.
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.
God's fury is on all the army of every nation. [1]
He has slaughtered them all.
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.
Their dead will be cast out.
The stink will come out of their carcasses.
The mountains will melt with their blood. [2]
4And 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 stars will dissolve, and the sky will be rolled up like a scroll.
Any stars that don't dissolve will fall to the ground.
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.
My sword will be bathed with blood in heaven.
It will come down on the people that I curse.
6The 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.
God's sword is filled with blood, it is fat with fatness. [3]
7And 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.
The unicorns will come down with them.
The land will be soaked with blood.
8For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
Because it is the day of God's vengeance.
9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
God will turn the streams into pitch, and dust into brimstone. [4]
The land will become burning pitch.
10It 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.
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.
12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
The land will burn day and night, with smoke going up forever.
It will lie waste from generation to generation.
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.
Dragons will live there.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And satyrs will cry to satyrs.
The screech owl [Lilith] also shall rest there. [5]
The unicorns shall come down with them ... their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. (v.7)
God, the anti-environmentalist.
The screech owl is translated "Lilith" in many translations of this verse.
Lilith appears in some Jewish folklore as Adam's first wife. Others say she was a sexual night-demon who steals babies.