And the [a]unicorn shall come down with them, and the heifers with the bulls, and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the year of recompense for the judgment of Zion.

And the rivers thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into [b]brimstone, and the land thereof shall be burning pitch.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:7 The mighty and rich shall be as well destroyed as the inferiors.
  2. Isaiah 34:9 He alludeth to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Gen. 19:24.

And the wild oxen(A) will fall with them,
    the bull calves and the great bulls.(B)
Their land will be drenched with blood,(C)
    and the dust will be soaked with fat.

For the Lord has a day(D) of vengeance,(E)
    a year of retribution,(F) to uphold Zion’s cause.
Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
    her dust into burning sulfur;(G)
    her land will become blazing pitch!

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