“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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 8 For [it is] the day of the LORD’S vengeance, [and] the year
of recompences for the controversy of Zion.”
“9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust
thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
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. 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. 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. 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.” (Isaiah 34:1-17 AV)