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Apoteichisis

The Old Testament

Isaiah 34

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Brenton 34:1

Draw near, ye nations; and hearken, ye princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people that are therein.

Brenton 34:2

For the wrath of the Lord is upon all nations, and his anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter.

Brenton 34:3

And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their ill savour shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.

Brenton 34:4

And all the powers of the heavens shall melt, and the sky shall be rolled up like a scroll: and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig-tree.

Brenton 34:5

My sword has been made drunk in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and with judgment upon the people doomed to destruction.

Brenton 34:6

The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat, with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bosor, and a great slaughter in Idumea.

Brenton 34:7

And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the land shall be soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.

Source notes (1)
  • Gr. made drunken.
Brenton 34:8

For it is the day of the judgment of the Lord, and the year of the recompence of Sion in judgment.

Brenton 34:9

And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;

Brenton 34:10

and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be made desolate throughout her generations,

Brenton 34:11

and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and satyrs shall dwell in it.

Source notes (1)
  • Vide supra, 13. 22.
Brenton 34:12

Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed.

Brenton 34:13

And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strong holds: and they shall be habitations of monsters, and a court for ostriches.

Source notes (1)
  • Vide supra, Job 30. 29; Is. 13. 21, etc.
Brenton 34:14

And devils shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the other: there shall satyrs rest, having found for themselves a place of rest.

Brenton 34:15

There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young: there have the deer met, and seen one another's faces.

Brenton 34:16

They passed by in full number, and not one of them perished: they sought not one another; for the Lord commanded them, and his Spirit gathered them.

Brenton 34:17

And he shall cast lots for them, and his hand has portioned out their pasture, saying, Ye shall inherit the land for ever: they shall rest on it through all generations.

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