Isaiah 34

New King James Version

Judgment on the Nations

34 Come ^(A)near, you nations, to hear;
And heed, you people!
^(B)Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,
The world and all things that come forth from it.
²For the indignation of the Lord is against all nations,
And His fury against all their armies;
He has utterly destroyed them,
He has given them over to the ^(C)slaughter.
³Also their slain shall be thrown out;
^(D)Their stench shall rise from their corpses,
And the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
⁴^(E)All the host of heaven shall be dissolved,
And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll;
^(F)All their host shall fall down
As the leaf falls from the vine,
And as ^(G)fruit falling from a fig tree.

⁵“For ^(H)My sword shall be bathed in heaven;
Indeed it ^(I)shall come down on Edom,
And on the people of My curse, for judgment.
⁶The ^(J)sword of the Lord is filled with blood,
It is made ^[a]overflowing with fatness,
With the blood of lambs and goats,
With the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For ^(K)the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
⁷The wild oxen shall come down with them,
And the young bulls with the mighty bulls;
Their land shall be soaked with blood,
And their dust ^[b]saturated with fatness.”

⁸For it is the day of the Lord’s ^(L)vengeance,
The year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
⁹^(M)Its streams shall be turned into pitch,
And its dust into brimstone;
Its land shall become burning pitch.
¹⁰It shall not be quenched night or day;
^(N)Its smoke shall ascend forever.
^(O)From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
No one shall pass through it forever and ever.
¹¹^(P)But the ^[c]pelican and the ^[d]porcupine shall possess it,
Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
And ^(Q)He shall stretch out over it
The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
¹²They shall call its nobles to the kingdom,
But none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing.

¹³And ^(R)thorns shall come up in its palaces,
Nettles and brambles in its fortresses;
^(S)It shall be a habitation of jackals,
A courtyard for ostriches.
¹⁴The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the ^[e]jackals,
And the wild goat shall bleat to its companion;
Also ^[f]the night creature shall rest there,
And find for herself a place of rest.
¹⁵There the arrow snake shall make her nest and lay eggs
And hatch, and gather them under her shadow;
There also shall the hawks be gathered,
Every one with her mate.

¹⁶“Search from ^(T)the book of the Lord, and read:
Not one of these shall fail;
Not one shall lack her mate.
For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them.
¹⁷He has cast the lot for them,
And His hand has divided it among them with a measuring line.
They shall possess it forever;
From generation to generation they shall dwell in it.”

Footnotes

Isaiah 34:6 Lit. fat
Isaiah 34:7 Lit. made fat
Isaiah 34:11 Or owl
Isaiah 34:11 Or hedgehog
Isaiah 34:14 Lit. howling creatures
Isaiah 34:14 Heb. lilith

Isaiah 35

New King James Version

The Future Glory of Zion

35 The ^(A)wilderness and the ^[a]wasteland shall be glad for them,
And the ^(B)desert^[b] shall rejoice and blossom as the rose;
²^(C)It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice,
Even with joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it,
The excellence of Carmel and Sharon.
They shall see the ^(D)glory of the Lord,
The excellency of our God.

³^(E)Strengthen the ^[c]weak hands,
And make firm the ^[d]feeble knees.
⁴Say to those who are fearful-hearted,
“Be strong, do not fear!
Behold, your God will come with ^(F)vengeance,
With the recompense of God;
He will come and ^(G)save you.”

⁵Then the ^(H)eyes of the blind shall be opened,
And ^(I)the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
⁶Then the ^(J)lame shall leap like a deer,
And the ^(K)tongue of the dumb sing.
For ^(L)waters shall burst forth in the wilderness,
And streams in the desert.
⁷The parched ground shall become a pool,
And the thirsty land springs of water;
In ^(M)the habitation of jackals, where each lay,
There shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

⁸A ^(N)highway shall be there, and a road,
And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness.
^(O)The unclean shall not pass over it,
But it shall be for others.
Whoever walks the road, although a fool,
Shall not go astray.
⁹^(P)No lion shall be there,
Nor shall any ravenous beast go up on it;
It shall not be found there.
But the redeemed shall walk there,
¹⁰And the ^(Q)ransomed of the Lord shall return,
And come to Zion with singing,
With everlasting joy on their heads.
They shall obtain joy and gladness,
And ^(R)sorrow and sighing shall flee away.