Isaiah 34 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Isaiah 34Judgment on the Nations

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9 shall be turned into pitch

and her soil into sulfur;

her land shall become burning pitch.

10 and the screech owl shall possess it;

the great owl and the raven shall live in it.

He shall stretch the line of confusion

and the plummet of chaos over it.

12They shall call its nobles No Kingdom There,

and all its princes shall be nothing.

13 Isa 13.22; 32.13; Jer 9.11; 10.22 Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,

nettles and thistles in its fortresses.

It shall be the haunt of jackals,

an abode for ostriches.

14 Isa 13.21 Wildcats shall meet with hyenas;

goat-demons shall call to each other;

there also Lilith shall repose

and find a place to rest.

15 Deut 14.13 There shall the owl nest

and lay and hatch and brood in its shadow;

there also the buzzards shall gather,

each one with its mate.

16 Isa 30.8; 40.5 Seek and read from the book of the Lord:

Not one of these shall be missing;

none shall be without its mate.

For his mouth, it has commanded,

and his spirit, it has gathered them.

17 vv 10, 11 ; Jer 13.25He has cast the lot for them;

his hand has portioned it out to them with the line.

[[They shall possess it;

from generation to generation they shall live in it.