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Chapter 34 |
| 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. |
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| 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.
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| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
