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The Prophecy
of Isaias 34
Come near, ye Gentiles, and hear, and hearken, ye people:
let the earth hear, and all that is therein, the world,
and every thing that cometh forth of it.
For the indignation of the Lord if upon all nations,
and his fury upon all their armies: he hath killed them,
and delivered them to slaughter.
Their slain shall be cast forth, and out of their carcasses
shall rise a slink: the mountains shall be melted with
their blood.
And all the host of the heavens shall pine away, and
the heavens shall be folded together as a book: and
all their host shall fall down as the leaf falleth from
the vine, and from the fig tree.
For my sword is inebriated in heaven: behold it shall
come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my slaughter
unto judgment.
The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made
thick with the blood of lambs and buck goats, with the
blood of rams full of marrow: for there is a victim
of the Lord in Bosra and a great slaughter in the land
of Edom.
And the unicorns shall go down with them, and the bulls
with the mighty: their land shall be soaked with blood,
and their ground with the fat of fat ones.
For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, the
year of recompenses of the judgment of Sion.
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch,
and the ground thereof into brimstone: and the land
thereof shall become burning pitch.
Night and day it shall not be quenched, the smoke thereof
shall go up for ever: from generation to generation
it shall lie waste, none shall pass through it for ever
and ever.
The bittern and ericius shall possess it: and the ibis
and the raven shall dwell in it: and a line shall be
stretched out upon it, to bring it to nothing, and a
plummet, unto desolation.
The nobles thereof shall not be there: they shall call
rather upon the king, and all the princes thereof shall
be nothing.
And thorns and nettles shall grow up in its houses,
and the thistle in the fortresses thereof: and it shall
be the habitation of dragons, and the pasture of ostriches.
And demons and monsters shall meet, and the hairy ones
shall cry out one to another, there hath the lamia lain
down, and found rest for herself.
There hath the ericius had its hole, and brought up
its young ones, and hath dug round about, and cherished
them in the shadow thereof: thither are the kites gathered
together one to another.
Search ye diligently in the book of the Lord, and read:
not one of them was wanting, one hath not sought for
the other: for that which proceedeth out of my mouth,
he hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath
divided it to them by line: they shall possess it for
ever, from generation to generation they shall dwell
therein. |