Isaiah 34:1-17

ECB(i) 1
YAH VEH JUDGES THE GOYIM
Approach, you goyim, to hear; and hearken, you nations: hear, O earth, and all its fulness; the world, and all its offspring: 2 for the rage of Yah Veh is on all goyim, and his fury on all their hosts: he devotes them; he gives them to the slaughter: 3 and their pierced are cast out and their stink ascends from their carcases and the mountains melt with their blood: 4 and all the host of the heavens dissolves and the heavens roll together as a scroll: and all their host withers as the leaf withers from the vine - as a withering from the fig tree. 5 For my sword saturates in the heavens: behold, it descends on Edom and on the people of my devotement to judgment. 6 The sword of Yah Veh fills with blood, - fattens with fat with the blood of rams and he goats; with the fat of the reins of rams: for Yah Veh - a sacrifice in Bosrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 7 And the reems descend with them and the bullocks with the mighty; and their land saturates with blood and their dust fattens with fat: 8 for it is the day of avengement of Yah Veh and the year of satisfactions for the strife of Siyon. 9 And the wadies turn into asphalt and the dust into sulphur and the land becomes burning asphalt 10 - not quenched night or day; the smoke ascends eternally: from generation to generation it lies parched; no one passes through in perpetuity. 11 And the pelican and the bittern possess it; and the owl and the raven tabernacle therein: and thereon, he spreads the line of waste, and the stones of emptiness. 12 They call the nobles to the kingdom but no one is there; and all her governors decease: 13 and thorns ascend in her citadels - thistles and thorns in the fortresses: and it becomes a habitation of rest of monsters - a court for daughters of the owls: 14 and the desert dwellers meet with the island howlers; and the buck calls to his friend; and the night spectre rests there, and finds a place of rest for herself: 15 there the arrowsnake nests and escapes and splits and broods under her shadow: and there the falcons gather - every woman with her friend. 16 Seek the scroll of Yah Veh, and call out! Not one of these lack! No woman oversees her mate: for my mouth misvahs, and his spirit gathers them: 17 and he fells the pebble for them, and his hand allots to them by line: they possess it eternally, from generation to generation they tabernacle therein.