Chapter 34.
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.
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.
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their
carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood, 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.
For my sword shall be bathed in heaven.
Behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse to
judgment.
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 Basra, and a great slaughter in the land of
Idumea.
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.
For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the
controversy of Zion, and the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch,
and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning
pitch.
It shall not be quenched night nor day.
The smoke thereof shall go up forever, from generation to generation it shall lie
waste.
None shall pass through it for ever and ever.
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.
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there,
and all her princes shall be nothing.
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.
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.
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay and hatch, and gather under her
shadow.
There shall the vultures also be gathered, everyone with her mate.
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, 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.