Isaias
Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904
21 But there in majesty the Lord will be for us a place of rivers, of canals wide stretching; thereon shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
22 For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king: he will save us.
23 Thy cords are loosed, they cannot firmly fix their pole; they have not spread out the banner; then was divided the prey of plunder in abundance; lame men do spoil spoil.
24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick; the people that dwelleth therein is forgiven (its) iniquity.
XXXIV. 1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples; let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all that come forth of it.
2 For the LORD hath indignation against all nations, and fury against all their host; he hath laid them under the ban, he hath given them to slaughter.
3 And their smitten shall be cast out, and their carcases, their stink shall go up, and mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4 And all the host of heaven shall waste away, and the heavens shall be rolled up as a scroll, and all their host shall fade, as a leaf fadeth from a vine, and as a fading (leaf) from a fig tree.
5 For my sword hath drenched itself in heaven; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, for judgment.
6 The LORD hath a sword, it is filled with blood, it is made rich with fat, with the blood of lambs and he goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for the ’LORD bath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter ’the land of Edom.
7 And ’ oxen shall come down with them, and bullocks with bulls; and their land shall be drenched with blood, and their dust made rich with fat.
8 For the Lord hatha day of vengeance, and a year of recompense for the quarrel of Zion.
9 And her streams shall be turned into pitch, and her dust into brimstone; and the land thereof shall become pitch that burneth.
10 Night and day it shall not be quenched; for ever its smoke shall go up; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; for ever and ever there shall be none passing through it.
11 But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it; and the horned owl and the raven shall dwell in it; and he shall stretch out upon it the line of wasteness and the plummet of void.
12 As for the nobles thereof, none shall be there to proclaim the kingdom ; and all her princes shall be no more.
13 And her castles shall spring up (with) thorns; nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation for jackals, a court for [daughters of ] ostriches.
14 And desert creatures shall meet the wolves, and the shaggy beast shall call to his fellow; the screech owl surely shall repose there, and find for herself a resting-place.
15 There shall the arrowsnake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather in her shadow; there surely shall the kites be , brought together, each with her mate.
16 Inquire ye out of the book of the Lord, and read; none of these is missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his spirit, it hath brought them together.