Isaiah 34 (NET)

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Isaiah 34:1¹Come near, you nations, and listen! Pay attention, you people! The earth and everything it contains must listen, the world and everything that lives in it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:26 Isa 1:2 Isa 41:1 Isa 43:9 Deut 32:1 Isa 33:13 Jer 22:29 Mic 6:1-2 Isa 18:3 Isa 49:1

Isaiah 34:2²For the Lord is angry at all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will annihilate them and slaughter them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 25:15-29 Zeph 3:8 Amos 1:1-2 Isa 13:5 Isa 30:25 Isa 30:27-30 Joel 3:9-14 Zech 14:12-16 Zech 14:3 Isa 24:1-23

Isaiah 34:3³Their slain will be left unburied, their corpses will stink; the hills will soak up their blood.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Joel 2:20 Ezek 39:4 Isa 34:7 2 Kgs 9:35-37 Amos 4:10 Ezek 14:19 Ezek 32:5-6 Ezek 35:6 Ezek 38:22 Ezek 39:11

Isaiah 34:4⁴All the stars in the sky will fade away, the sky will roll up like a scroll; all its stars will wither, like a leaf withers and falls from a vine or a fig withers and falls from a tree.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 6:13-14 Matt 24:29 Ezek 32:7-8 Joel 3:15 2 Pet 3:7-12 Mark 13:24-25 Ps 102:25-26 Jer 4:23-24 Joel 2:30-31 Matt 24:35

Isaiah 34:5⁵He says, “Indeed, my sword has slaughtered heavenly powers. Look, it now descends on Edom, on the people I will annihilate in judgment.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 46:10 Amos 1:11-12 Isa 63:1 Mal 1:4 Ezek 25:12-14 Jer 49:7-22 Deut 29:18-21 Deut 32:14 Deut 32:41-42 Ezek 21:3-5

Isaiah 34:6⁶The Lord ’s sword is dripping with blood, it is covered with fat; it drips with the blood of young rams and goats and is covered with the fat of rams’ kidneys. For the Lord is holding a sacrifice in Bozrah, a bloody slaughter in the land of Edom.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 63:1 Jer 49:13 Deut 32:14 Ezek 21:4-5 Ezek 39:17-20 Isa 34:5 Isa 63:3 Jer 50:27 Jer 51:40 Rev 19:17-18

Isaiah 34:7⁷Wild oxen will be slaughtered along with them, as well as strong bulls. Their land is drenched with blood, their soil is covered with fat.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Num 23:22 Ps 68:30 Jer 50:27 Deut 33:17 Jer 46:21 Jer 50:11 Job 39:9-10 Num 24:8 Ps 92:10

Isaiah 34:8⁸For the Lord has planned a day of revenge, a time when he will repay Edom for her hostility toward Zion.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 63:4 Isa 61:2 Isa 35:4 Jer 46:10 Ps 94:1 Deut 32:35 Rev 18:20 Rev 19:2 Rev 6:10-11 2 Thess 1:6-10

Isaiah 34:9⁹Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 29:23 Ps 11:6 Gen 19:28 Job 18:15 Jude 1:7 Luke 17:29 Rev 19:20 Rev 21:8

Isaiah 34:10¹⁰Night and day it will burn; its smoke will ascend continually. Generation after generation it will be a wasteland, and no one will ever pass through it again.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 19:3 Isa 13:20 Isa 66:24 Mal 1:3-4 Ezek 29:11 Isa 1:31 Rev 14:10-11 Rev 18:18 Ezek 20:47-48 Isa 24:1

Isaiah 34:11¹¹Owls and wild animals will live there, all kinds of wild birds will settle in it. The Lord will stretch out over her the measuring line of ruin and the plumb line of destruction.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 21:13 Lam 2:8 Zeph 2:14 Rev 18:2 2 Sam 8:2 Isa 14:23 Isa 13:20-22 Isa 24:10 Mal 1:3-4 Rev 18:21-23

Isaiah 34:12¹²Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdom, and all her officials will disappear.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 3:6-8 1 Cor 13:2 1 Cor 8:4 2 Cor 12:11 Eccl 10:16-17 Isa 41:11-12 Isa 41:24 Jer 27:20 Jer 39:6

Isaiah 34:13¹³Her fortresses will be overgrown with thorns; thickets and weeds will grow in her fortified cities. Jackals will settle there; ostriches will live there.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 10:22 Jer 9:11 Mal 1:3 Ps 44:19 Hos 9:6 Isa 13:21-22 Isa 32:13-14 Isa 35:7 Jer 49:33 Jer 50:39-40

Isaiah 34:14¹⁴Wild animals and wild dogs will congregate there; wild goats will bleat to one another. Yes, nocturnal animals will rest there and make for themselves a nest.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 13:21-22

Isaiah 34:15¹⁵Owls will make nests and lay eggs there; they will hatch them and protect them. Yes, hawks will gather there, each with its mate.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 14:13

Isaiah 34:16¹⁶Carefully read the scroll of the Lord! Not one of these creatures will be missing, none will lack a mate. For the Lord has issued the decree, and his own spirit gathers them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 33:9 Josh 1:8 Matt 5:18 Isa 30:8 Ps 33:6 Prov 23:12 John 10:35 Luke 21:33 Dan 10:21 Mal 3:16

Isaiah 34:17¹⁷He assigns them their allotment; he measures out their assigned place. They will live there permanently; they will settle in it through successive generations.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 34:10 Acts 17:26 Isa 13:20-22 Isa 17:14 Jer 13:25 Josh 18:8 Ps 78:55 Acts 13:19