Isaiah 34:1-17 CEB

[1] Draw near, you nations, to hear; and listen, you peoples. Hear, earth and all who fill it, world and all its offspring. [2] The LORD rages against all the nations, and is angry with all their armies. God is about to wipe them out and has prepared them for slaughter. [3] Their dead will be cast out, the stench of their corpses will rise, and the mountains will melt from their blood. [4] All the stars of heaven will dissolve, the skies will roll up like a scroll, and all the stars will fall, like a leaf withering from a vine, like fruit from a fig tree. [5] When my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, it will descend upon Edom for judgment, upon a people I have doomed for destruction. [6] The LORD has a sword covered with blood; it is soaked with fat from the blood of lambs and goats, from the kidney fat of rams, for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom. [7] Wild oxen will fall with them, steers with mighty bulls, and their land will be drenched with blood; its soil soaked with fat. [8] The LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of payback for Zion’s cause. [9] Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, and its land will become burning pitch. [10] Night and day won’t be extinguished; its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation it will lie waste; no one will ever pass through it again. [11] Screech owls and crows will possess it; owls and ravens will live there. God will stretch over it the measuring line of chaos and the plummet stone of emptiness over its officials. [12] No Kingdom There, they will call it, and all its princes will disappear. [13] Thorns will grow up in its palaces, weeds and brambles in its fortresses. It will be a dwelling for jackals, a home for ostriches. [14] Wildcats will meet hyenas, the goat demon will call to his friends, and there Lilith will lurk and find her resting place. [15] There the snake will nest and lay eggs and brood and hatch in its shadow. There too vultures will gather, each with its mate. [16] Consult the LORD’s scroll and read: Not one of these will be missing; none will lack its mate. God’s own mouth has commanded; God’s own spirit has gathered them. [17] God has cast the lot for them; God’s hand allotted it to them with the measuring line. They will possess it forever; they will live in it from generation to generation.