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For my sword will be seen[a] in the heavens.
    Look! It descends in judgment on Edom,
        on the people I have doomed to destruction.
The Lord has a sword bathed in blood;
    it’s covered[b] with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
    and with fat from the kidneys of rams.”

Judgment on Bozrah and Edom

“For the Lord holds a sacrifice in Bozrah,
    and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
Wild oxen will fall together with them—
    young steers and mighty bulls.
Their land will be drenched[c] with blood,
    and their soil will be swollen with fat.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:5 So 1QIsaa; MT reads has drunk its fill; cf. LXX
  2. Isaiah 34:6 Or satiated
  3. Isaiah 34:7 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads drench