(Isaiah 34) Come near, you nations, to hear. And listen, you people! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world and all its offspring. For the displeasure of יהוה is against all the nations, and His wrath against all their divisions. He shall put them under the ban, He shall give them over to the slaughter. And their slain shall be thrown out, and their stench rise from their corpses. And mountains shall be melted with their blood. And all the host of the heavens shall rot away, and the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll. And all their host fade life a leaf fading on the vine, and like the fading one of a fig tree. “For My sword shall be drenched in the heavens. See, it comes down on Eḏom, and on the people of My curse, for judgment. “The sword of יהוה shall be filled with blood, it shall be made overflowing with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For יהוה has a slaughtering in Botsrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Eḏom. “And wild oxen shall come down with them, and young bulls with bulls. And their land shall be drenched with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.” For it is the day of the vengeance of יהוה, the year of recompense for the cause of Tsiyon. And its streams shall be turned into tar, and its dust into sulphur, and its land shall become burning tar, that is not quenched night or day, its smoke going up forever. From generation to generation it lies waste, no one passes through it forever and ever, but pelican and porcupine possess it, and owl and raven dwell in it. And He shall stretch out over it the line of formlessness and stones of emptiness. Its caves with no one in them is called a reign, but all its rulers have vanished. And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and brambles in its strongholds. And it shall be a home for jackals, a courtyard for ostriches. And the wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the jackals, and the shaggy goat call to its companion. The night creature shall settle there and shall find for herself a place of rest. The arrow snake shall rest there, and lay eggs and hatch, and gather them under her shadow. There too the vultures shall gather, each with its mate. (Isaiah 35) The wilderness and the dry place shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. It blossoms much and rejoices, even with joy and singing. The esteem of Leḇanon shall be given to it, the excellence of Karmel and Sharon. They shall see the esteem of יהוה, the excellency of our Elohim. Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the weak knees. Say to those with anxious heart, “Be strong, do not fear! See, your Elohim comes with vengeance, with the recompense of Elohim. He is coming to save you.” Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened. Then the lame shall leap like deer, and the tongue of the dumb sing, because waters shall burst in the wilderness, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water. In the home for jackals, where each lay, grass with reeds and rushes. And there shall be a highway, and a way, and it shall be called “The Way of Set-apartness.” The unclean shall not pass over it, but it is for those who walk the way, and no fools wander on it. No lion is there, nor any ravenous beast go up on it, it is not found there. But the redeemed shall walk there, and the ransomed of יהוה shall return, and enter Tsiyon with singing, with everlasting joy on their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
ISAIAH (YESHAYAHU) 34 -35
