Isaiah, starting at chapter 34
{34:1} Come near, you nations, to hear!
Listen, you peoples.
Let the earth and all it contains hear;
the world, and everything that comes from it.
{34:2} For the LORD is enraged against all the nations,
and angry with all their armies.
He has utterly destroyed them.
He has given them over for slaughter.
{34:3} Their slain will also be cast out,
and the stench of their dead bodies will come up;
and the mountains will melt in their blood.
{34:4} All of the army of the sky will be dissolved.
The sky will be rolled up like a scroll,
and all its armies will fade away,
as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
{34:5} For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky.
Behold, it will come down on Edom,
and on the people of my curse, for judgment.
{34:6} The LORD's sword is filled with blood.
It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams;
for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
{34:7} The wild oxen will come down with them,
and the young bulls with the mighty bulls;
and their land will be drunken with blood,
and their dust made greasy with fat.
{34:8} For the LORD has a day of vengeance,
a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
{34:9} Its streams will be turned into pitch,
its dust into sulfur,
And its land will become burning pitch.
{34:10} It won't be quenched night nor day.
Its smoke will go up forever.
From generation to generation, it will lie waste.
No one will pass through it forever and ever.
{34:11} But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it.
The owl and the raven will dwell in it.
He will stretch the line of confusion over it,
and the plumb line of emptiness.
{34:12} They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be
there;
and all its princes shall be nothing.
{34:13} Thorns will come up in its palaces,
nettles and thistles in its fortresses;
and it will be a habitation of jackals,
a court for ostriches.
{34:14} The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves,
and the wild goat will cry to his fellow.
Yes, the [1>]night creature[<1] shall settle there,
and shall find herself a place of rest.
{34:15} The arrow snake will make her nest there,
and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade.
Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.
{34:16} Search in the book of the LORD, and read:
not one of these will be missing.
none will lack her mate.
For my mouth has commanded,
and his Spirit has gathered them.
{34:17} He has cast the lot for them,
and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line.
They shall possess it forever.
From generation to generation they will dwell in it.
{35:1} The wilderness and the dry land will be glad.
The desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
{35:2} It will blossom abundantly,
and rejoice even with joy and singing.
Lebanon's glory Lebanon will be given to it,
the excellence of Carmel and Sharon.
They will see the LORD's glory,
the excellence of our God.
{35:3} Strengthen the weak hands,
and make firm the feeble knees.
{35:4} Tell those who have a fearful heart, "Be strong.
Don't be afraid.
Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God's retribution.
He will come and save you.
{35:5} Then the eyes of the blind will be opened,
and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
{35:6} Then the lame man will leap like a deer,
and the tongue of the mute will sing;
for waters will break out in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert.
{35:7} The burning sand will become a pool,
and the thirsty ground springs of water.
Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals,
where they lay.
{35:8} A highway will be there, a road,
and it will be called The Holy Way.
The unclean shall not pass over it,
but it will be for those who walk in the Way.
Wicked fools will not go there.
{35:9} No lion will be there,
nor will any ravenous animal go up on it.
They will not be found there;
but the redeemed will walk there.
{35:10} The the LORD's ransomed ones will return,
and come with singing to Zion;
and everlasting joy will be on their heads.
They will obtain gladness and joy,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away."
{36:1} Now it happened in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that
Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all of the fortified cities of
Judah, and captured them. {36:2} The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh
from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood
by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller's field highway.
{36:3} Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder came
out to him. {36:4} Rabshakeh said to them, "Now tell Hezekiah, 'Thus
says the great king, the king of Assyria, "What confidence is this in
which you trust? {36:5} I say that your counsel and strength for the
war are only vain words. Now in whom do you trust, that you have
rebelled against me? {36:6} Behold, you trust in the staff of this
bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go
into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who
trust in him. {36:7} But if you tell me, 'We trust in the LORD our
God,' isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has
taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship
before this altar?'" {36:8} Now therefore, please make a pledge to my
master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses,
if you are able on your part to set riders on them. {36:9} How then
can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's
servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
{36:10} Have I come up now without the LORD against this land to
destroy it? the LORD said to me, "Go up against this land, and destroy
it."'"
{36:11} Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please
speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and don't
speak to us in the Jews' language in the hearing of the people who are
on the wall."
{36:12} But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me only to your
master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on
the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with
you?" {36:13} Then Rabshakeh stood, and called out with a loud voice
in the Jews' language, and said, "Hear the words of the great king,
the king of Assyria! {36:14} Thus says the king, 'Don't let Hezekiah
deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you. {36:15} Don't let
Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, "The LORD will surely
deliver us. This city won't be given into the hand of the king of
Assyria."' {36:16} Don't listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of
Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and each of you
eat from his vine, and each one from his fig tree, and each one of you
drink the waters of his own cistern; {36:17} until I come and take you
away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a
land of bread and vineyards. {36:18} Beware lest Hezekiah persuade
you, saying, "The LORD will deliver us." Have any of the gods of the
nations delivered their lands from the hand of the king of Assyria?
{36:19} Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of
Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand? {36:20} Who are
they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their
country out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of
my hand?'"
{36:21} But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the
king's commandment was, "Don't answer him."
{36:22} Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came
to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of
Rabshakeh.
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Footnotes:
[1] {34:14} literally, lilith, which could also be a night demon or
night monster
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