Isaiæ 34

1 Accedite Gentes, et audite, et populi attendite: audiat terra, et plenitudo eius, orbis, et omne germen eius.

Draw near, you nations; and listen, you princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people that are therein.

2 Quia indignatio Domini super omnes Gentes, et furor super universam militiam eorum: interfecit eos, et dedit eos in occisionem.

For the wrath of the Lord is upon all nations, and [his] anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter.

3 Interfecti eorum proiicientur, et de cadaveribus eorum ascendet fœtor: tabescent montes a sanguine eorum.

And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their [ill] savour shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.

4 Et tabescet omnis militia cælorum, et complicabuntur sicut liber cæli: et omnis militia eorum defluet sicut defluit folium de vinea et de ficu.

And all the powers of the heavens shall melt, and the sky shall be rolled up like a scroll: and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig tree.

5 Quoniam inebriatus est in cælo gladius meus: ecce super Idumæam descendet, et super populum interfectionis meæ ad iudicium.

My sword has been made drunk in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and with judgement upon the people doomed to destruction.

6 Gladius Domini repletus est sanguine, incrassatus est adipe, de sanguine agnorum, et hircorum, de sanguine medullatorum arietum: victima enim Domini in Bosra, et interfectio magna in Terra Edom.

The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat, with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bosor, and a great slaughter in Idumea.

7 Et descendent unicornes cum eis, et tauri cum potentibus: inebriabitur terra eorum sanguine, et humus eorum adipe pinguium:

And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the land shall be soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.

8 quia dies ultionis Domini, annus retributionum iudicii Sion.

For it is the day of judgement of the Lord, and the year of the recompence of Sion in judgement.

9 Et convertentur torrentes eius in picem, et humus eius in sulphur: et erit terra eius in picem ardentem.

And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;

10 Nocte et die non extinguetur, in sempiternum ascendet fumus eius: a generatione in generationem desolabitur, in sæcula sæculorum non erit transiens per eam.

and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be made desolate throughout her generations,

11 Et possidebunt illam onocrotalus, et ericius: ibis, et corvus habitabunt in ea: et extendetur super eam mensura, ut redigatur ad nihilum, et perpendiculum in desolationem.

and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and satyrs shall dwell in it.

12 Nobiles eius non erunt ibi: regem potius invocabunt, et omnes principes eius erunt in nihilum.

Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed.

13 Et orientur in domibus eius spinæ, et urticæ, et paliurus in munitionibus eius: et erit cubile draconum, et pascua struthionum.

And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strong holds: and they shall be habitations of monsters, and a court of ostriches.

14 Et occurrent dæmonia onocentauris, et pilosus clamabit alter ad alterum: ibi cubavit lamia, et invenit sibi requiem.

And devils shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the other: there shall satyrs rest, having found for themselves [a place of] rest.

15 Ibi habuit foveam ericius, et enutrivit catulos, et circumfodit, et fovit in umbra eius: illuc congregati sunt milvi, alter ad alterum.

There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young: there have the deer met, and seen one another's faces.

16 Requirite diligenter in libro Domini, et legite: unum ex eis non defuit, alter alterum non quæsivit: quia quod ex ore meo procedit, ille mandavit, et spiritus eius ipse congregavit ea.

They passed by in [full] number, and not one of them perished: they sought not one another; for the Lord commanded them, and his Spirit gathered them.

17 Et ipse misit eis sortem, et manus eius divisit eam illis in mensuram: usque in æternum possidebunt eam, in generationem et generationem habitabunt in ea.

And he shall cast lots for them, and his hand has portioned out [their] pasture, [saying], You shall inherit [the land] for ever: they shall rest on it [through] all generations.