Isaiah 34:5-15 — Legacy Standard Bible

⁵For ^aMy sword is satiated in heaven;Behold, it shall descend for judgment upon ^bEdomAnd upon the people whom I have ^cdevoted to destruction.⁶The sword of Yahweh is filled with blood;It is ¹sated with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,With the fat of the kidneys of rams.For Yahweh has a sacrifice in ^aBozrahAnd a great slaughter in the land of ^bEdom.⁷^aAnd wild oxen will also ¹fall with them,And ^byoung bulls with strong ones;Thus their land will be ^csoaked with blood,And their dust ²become greasy with fat.⁸For Yahweh has a day of ^avengeance,A year of recompense for the ¹cause of Zion.⁹¹And its streams will be turned into pitch,And its dust into ^abrimstone,And its land will become burning pitch.¹⁰It will ^anot be quenched night or day;Its ^bsmoke will go up forever.From ^cgeneration to generation it will be laid waste;^dNone will pass through it forever and ever.¹¹But ¹^,^apelican and hedgehog will possess it,And ²owl and raven will dwell in it;And He will stretch over it the ^bline of utter formlessnessAnd the ³plumb line of utter void.¹²Its nobles—there is ^ano one thereWhom they may proclaim king—And all its princes will be ^bnon-existent.¹³And thorns will come up in its ^afortified towers,Weeds and thistles in its fortified cities;It will also be a haunt of ^bjackalsAnd an abode of ostriches.¹⁴And the desert ^acreatures will meet with the ¹wolves;The ²^,^bhairy goat also will cry to its kind;Surely, the ³night creature will obtain relief thereAnd will find itself a resting place.¹⁵The ¹owl will make its nest and find its escape there,And it will hatch its eggs and gather them in its shade.Surely, ^athe ²falcons will be gathered there,Every one with its kind.