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Isaiah 34:1-8

Isaiah 34:1-8 NCV

All you nations, come near and listen. Pay attention, you peoples! The earth and all the people in it should listen, the world and everything in it. The LORD is angry with all the nations; he is angry with their armies. He will destroy them and kill them all. Their bodies will be thrown outside. The stink will rise from the bodies, and the blood will flow down the mountains. The sun, moon, and stars will dissolve, and the sky will be rolled up like a scroll. The stars will fall like dead leaves from a vine or dried-up figs from a fig tree. The LORD’s sword in the sky is covered with blood. It will cut through Edom and destroy those people as an offering to the LORD. The LORD’s sword will be covered with blood; it will be covered with fat, with the blood from lambs and goats, with the fat from the kidneys of sheep. This is because the LORD decided there will be a sacrifice in Bozrah and much killing in Edom. The oxen will be killed, and the cattle and the strong bulls. The land will be filled with their blood, and the dirt will be covered with their fat. The LORD has chosen a time for punishment. He has chosen a year when people must pay for the wrongs they did to Jerusalem.