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Indeed, the day of the Lord comes,
    cruel, with wrath and burning anger;
To lay waste the land
    and destroy the sinners within it!(A)

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[a]For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
    a year of requital for the cause of Zion.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 34:8–17 The extreme hostility against Edom in this passage is reflected in a number of other prophetic texts from the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. (cf. e.g., 63:1–6; Jer 49:7–22; Ez 25:12–14). The animus was probably prompted by Edomite infiltration of the southern territories of Judah, especially after the Babylonian conquest of Judah.

I will set signs in the heavens and on the earth,
    blood, fire, and columns of smoke;

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18 Neither their silver nor their gold
    will be able to save them.
On the day of the Lord’s wrath,
    in the fire of his passion,
    all the earth will be consumed.
For he will make an end, yes, a sudden end,
    of all who live on the earth.(A)

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The present heavens and earth have been reserved by the same word for fire, kept for the day of judgment and of destruction of the godless.(A)

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