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The valleys will be split,
    all the stars[a] in the heavens will fall down,[b]
        and the skies will be rolled up like a scroll.
All their starry host will fade away
    like leaves withering on a vine,
        or fruit withering on a fig tree.

For my sword will be seen[c] in the heavens.
    Look! It descends in judgment on Edom,
        on the people I have doomed to destruction.
The Lord has a sword bathed in blood;
    it’s covered[d] with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
    and with fat from the kidneys of rams.”

Judgment on Bozrah and Edom

“For the Lord holds a sacrifice in Bozrah,
    and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 34:4 Lit. host
  2. Isaiah 34:4 So 1QIsaa; MT reads All the stars of the heavens will rot away ; LXX lacks this line
  3. Isaiah 34:5 So 1QIsaa; MT reads has drunk its fill; cf. LXX
  4. Isaiah 34:6 Or satiated

All the stars in the sky will be dissolved(A)
    and the heavens rolled up(B) like a scroll;
all the starry host will fall(C)
    like withered(D) leaves from the vine,
    like shriveled figs from the fig tree.

My sword(E) has drunk its fill in the heavens;
    see, it descends in judgment on Edom,(F)
    the people I have totally destroyed.(G)
The sword(H) of the Lord is bathed in blood,
    it is covered with fat—
the blood of lambs and goats,
    fat from the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice(I) in Bozrah(J)
    and a great slaughter(K) in the land of Edom.

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