Isaiæ 34
1 Accedite Gentes, et audite, et populi attendite: audiat terra, et plenitudo eius, orbis, et omne germen eius.
Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear, and the fulness thereof; the world, and all things that come forth of it
2 Quia indignatio Domini super omnes Gentes, et furor super universam militiam eorum: interfecit eos, et dedit eos in occisionem.
For the LORD hath indignation against all the nations, and fury against all their host: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
3 Interfecti eorum proiicientur, et de cadaveribus eorum ascendet foetor: tabescent montes a sanguine eorum.
Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stink of their carcases shall come up, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
4 Et tabescet omnis militia caelorum, et complicabuntur sicut liber caeli: et omnis militia eorum defluet sicut defluit folium de vinea et de ficu.
And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fade away, as the leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as a fading [leaf] from the fig tree.
5 Quoniam inebriatus est in caelo gladius meus: ecce super Idumaeam descendet, et super populum interfectionis meae ad iudicium.
For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
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 made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 Et descendent unicornes cum eis, et tauri cum potentibus: inebriabitur terra eorum sanguine, et humus eorum adipe pinguium:
And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
8 quia dies ultionis Domini, annus retributionum iudicii Sion.
For it is the day of the LORD’S vengeance, the year of recompence in the controversy of Zion.
9 Et convertentur torrentes eius in picem, et humus eius in sulphur: et erit terra eius in picem ardentem.
And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
10 Nocte et die non extinguetur, in sempiternum ascendet fumus eius: a generatione in generationem desolabitur, in saecula saeculorum non erit transiens per eam.
It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
11 Et possidebunt illam onocrotalus, et ericius: ibix, et corvus habitabunt in ea: et extendetur super eam mensura, ut redigatur ad nihilum, et perpendiculum in desolationem.
But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he shall stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
12 Nobiles eius non erunt ibi: regem potius invocabunt, et omnes principes eius erunt in nihilum.
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all her princes shall be nothing.
13 Et orientur in domibus eius spinae, et urticae, et paliurus in munitionibus eius: et erit cubile draconum, et pascua struthionum.
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
14 Et occurrent daemonia onocentaurus, et pilosus clamabit alter ad alterum: ibi cubavit lamia, et invenit sibi requiem.
And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her 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 shall the arrowsnake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.
16 Requirite diligenter in libro Domini, et legite: unum ex eis non defuit, alter alterum non quaesivit: quia quod ex ore meo procedit, ille mandavit, et spiritus eius ipse congregavit ea.
Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
17 Et ipse misit eis sortem, et manus eius divisit eam illis in mensuram: usque in aeternum possidebunt eam, in generatione et generationem habitabunt in ea.
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
