34: 2 For Jehovah hath indignation against all the nations, and wrath against all their host: he hath 407utterly destroyed them, and he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
407Hb. devoted them,
34: 3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
34: 4 And all the host of heaven shall 408be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as the leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as a fading leaf from the fig-tree.
408Or, moulder away, or, rot away,
34: 5 For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my 409curse, to judgment.
409Hb. devoting, or, ban,
34: 6 The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
34: 7 And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
34: 8 For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
34: 9 And the streams 410of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into 411brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
410Hb. thereof shall be turned into pitch,
411In modern terminology, sulfur [Its fumes are toxic.]
34: 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; 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.
34: 11 But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the 412owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the 413plummet of emptiness.
412Or, bittern
413Hb. stones Abegg says, plumb lines of emptiness are its nobles. They will call it No Kingdom There;
34: 12 414They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
414Or, As for her nobles, none shall be there to proclaim the kingdom;
34: 13 And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
34: 14 And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the 415wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yes, the 416night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.
415Hb. howling creatures,
416Hb. Lilith shall settle there,
34: 15 There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yes, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.
34: 16 Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them.
34: 17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever; from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
