Isaiah 第34章
Judgment on the Nations
and give attention, O peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that fills it;
the world, and all that comes from it.
2For the Lord is enraged against all the nations,
and furious against all their host;
he has 34:2 [Josh. 6:21]devoted them to destruction,34:2 That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verse 5 has given them over for slaughter.
3Their slain shall be cast out,
and 34:3 Joel 2:20the stench of their corpses shall rise;
34:3 [Ezek. 39:4]the mountains shall flow with their blood.
434:4 Joel 2:31; 3:15; Matt. 24:29; Acts 2:20; Rev. 6:13, 14; [Ps. 102:26; Heb. 1:11]All the host of heaven shall rot away,
and the skies roll up like a scroll.
All their host shall fall,
as leaves fall from the vine,
like leaves falling from the fig tree.
5For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
behold, it descends for judgment upon 34:5 See ch. 63:1-6; Jer. 49:7-22; Obad. 1-21; Mal. 1:2-4Edom,
upon the people 34:5 [ver. 2]I have devoted to destruction.
6The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;
it is gorged with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
34:6 ch. 63:1For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
Their land shall drink its fill of blood,
and their soil shall be gorged with fat.
a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
and her soil into sulfur;
her land shall become burning pitch.
34:10 [Rev. 14:11; 18:18; 19:3] its smoke shall go up forever.
34:10 Mal. 1:4From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
none shall pass through it forever and ever.
1134:11 ch. 14:23; Zeph. 2:14; [Rev. 18:2] But the hawk and the porcupine34:11 The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain shall possess it,
the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
34:11 2 Kgs. 21:13; Lam. 2:8; See Amos 7:7-9He shall stretch the line of 34:11 [ch. 24:10]confusion34:11 Hebrew formlessness over it,
and the plumb line of emptiness.
12Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom,
and all its princes shall be nothing.
nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
an abode for ostriches.34:13 Or owls
the wild goat shall cry to his fellow;
indeed, there the night bird34:14 Identity uncertain settles
and finds for herself a resting place.
15There the owl nests and lays
and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow;
indeed, there 34:15 Deut. 14:13the hawks are gathered,
each one with her mate.
16Seek and read from the book of the Lord:
Not one of these shall be missing;
none shall be without her mate.
For the mouth of the Lord has commanded,
and his Spirit has gathered them.
his hand has portioned it out to them with the line;
they shall possess it forever;
from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.
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