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UST ISA Chapter 34

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34 You people of other nations, come near

and listen carefully to what I am saying.

Everyone who lives on the earth should hear it.

2 Yahweh is angry with the people of other nations,

and he is especially furious with their armies.

He has decided to destroy them completely,

and so he is going to allow others to kill them.

3 No one will bury them,

so their dead bodies will stink.

So much blood will flow from their bodies

that it seem as if the mountains are liquid.

4 All of the stars in the sky will disappear,

and the sky will also disappear,

the way a scroll disappears when someone rolls it up.

The stars will fade away

just as leaves fade and fall off grapevines

or figs shrivel up and drop from fig trees.

5 Yahweh says, “It is as if my sword drinks blood

and it has drunk all the blood it wants in the sky.

Now I will use my sword against the people of Edom.

I have decided to destroy those people completely.”

6 Yahweh is going to kill many people

as if he were offering a sacrifice of many animals

in the city of Bozrah and throughout the land of Edom.

As a result, it will be as if his sword has much blood and fat on it

from slaughtering lambs, goats, and rams

and removing their fat and inner organs.

7 It will even be as if Yahweh slaughters wild oxen

along with young and strong oxen from a herd.

It will be as if the land of Edom drinks blood

and has drunk all the blood it wants,

and it will be as if the ground there eats fat

and has become fat from eating so much of it.

8 This will happen because it will be the time when Yahweh takes revenge on Edom

and punishes them for what they did to the people of Judah.

9 The rivers in Edom will flow with tar instead of water,

and the ground will be sulfur instead of soil.

Burning tar will cover the land.

10 Fire will always be burning,

and the smoke from it will rise continually.

People will not live in Edom again in any future generation.

No one will ever even travel through that land.

11 Pelicans, desert owls, screech owls, and ravens

will live there instead.

It will be as if Yahweh is using a measuring line

not to make sure that a building is the right size

but to make sure that no building is there.

It will be as if Yahweh is using a cord with weights on the end

not to make sure that walls are straight

but to make sure that there are no walls.

12 There will be nothing in Edom that people would call a kingdom,

so it will not have any nobles or princes.

13 Thorns, nettles, and thornbushes will grow up over the palaces and fortresses.

Jackals and ostriches will live in those ruins.

14 Wild desert animals and hyenas will roam there,

and wild goats will call out to each other.

Animals that come out at night

will also make their dens there and live there.

15 Great owls will build their nests there.

They will lay their eggs, hatch them,

and care for their young in the shade of those ruins.

Hawks will also gather there,

living near one another throughout those ruins.

16 Yahweh has decided that every one of these creatures will be there.

None will be without its counterpart.

Yahweh has recorded this in a scroll,

and anyone can verify it by checking that scroll.

This will happen because Yahweh himself has commanded it,

and it will be his Spirit who gathers all those animals there.

17 Yahweh has assigned each creature its own territory,

and he has measured out the land and divided it among them.

They will possess that land forever.

Their descendants will live there in every generation.”