Isaiæ 34
1 Accedite Gentes, et audite, et populi attendite: audiat terra, et plenitudo eius, orbis, et omne germen eius.
You people of all nations, come near and listen and pay careful attention. I want the world and everything that is in it to hear what I say.
2 Quia indignatio Domini super omnes Gentes, et furor super universam militiam eorum: interfecit eos, et dedit eos in occisionem.
Yahweh is angry with [the people of] all nations; he is (furious/very angry) with all their armies. He has decided that they must be destroyed, and he will slaughter them.
3 Interfecti eorum proiicientur, et de cadaveribus eorum ascendet foetor: tabescent montes a sanguine eorum.
Their corpses will not be buried, and [as a result] their corpses will stink, and their blood will [fill the streams that] flow down the mountains.
4 Et tabescet omnis militia caelorum, et complicabuntur sicut liber caeli: et omnis militia eorum defluet sicut defluit folium de vinea et de ficu.
The sky will disappear like [SIM] a scroll that is rolled up [and thrown away]. Stars will fall [from the sky] like [SIM] [withered] leaves fall from grapevines, [or] like [SIM] shriveled figs fall from fig trees.
5 Quoniam inebriatus est in caelo gladius meus: ecce super Idumaeam descendet, et super populum interfectionis meae ad iudicium.
When Yahweh has finished his work of destroying objects in the sky, he will punish [the people of] Edom, that people-group that he has said must be destroyed/exterminated.
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.
[It is as though] Yahweh has a sword that is covered with blood and fat— the blood of lambs and goats and the fat of the kidneys of rams to be sacrificed. [It is as though] Yahweh will offer a sacrifice in [the city of] Bozrah [and kill many people] in other cities in Edom.
7 Et descendent unicornes cum eis, et tauri cum potentibus: inebriabitur terra eorum sanguine, et humus eorum adipe pinguium:
[Even] wild oxen will be killed, as well as young calves and big bulls. The ground will be soaked with blood, and the dirt will be covered with the fat of those animals.
8 quia dies ultionis Domini, annus retributionum iudicii Sion.
That will be the time when Yahweh gets revenge for what those people did to the people of Judah.
9 Et convertentur torrentes eius in picem, et humus eius in sulphur: et erit terra eius in picem ardentem.
The streams in Edom will be full of burning pitch/tar, and the ground will be covered with burning sulfur.
10 Nocte et die non extinguetur, in sempiternum ascendet fumus eius: a generatione in generationem desolabitur, in saecula saeculorum non erit transiens per eam.
Yahweh will never finish punishing Edom with fire; the smoke will rise forever. No one will ever live in that land, and no one will [even] travel through it.
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.
Ravens and various kinds of owls and small animals will live there. Yahweh will measure that land carefully: He will measure it to [to decide where] to cause chaos and destruction.
12 Nobiles eius non erunt ibi: regem potius invocabunt, et omnes principes eius erunt in nihilum.
There will be no princes; the people who have authority will have no kingdom to rule.
13 Et orientur in domibus eius spinae, et urticae, et paliurus in munitionibus eius: et erit cubile draconum, et pascua struthionum.
The deserted palaces and fortified buildings will be full of thorns and thistles. The ruins will be a place for jackals/wolves and owls to live.
14 Et occurrent daemonia onocentaurus, et pilosus clamabit alter ad alterum: ibi cubavit lamia, et invenit sibi requiem.
Animals that live in the desert and hyenas/wolves will be there, and wild goats will bleat/call to each other. There will also be creatures/animals that [roam around] at night.
15 Ibi habuit foveam ericius, et enutrivit catulos, et circumfodit, et fovit in umbra eius: illuc congregati sunt milvi, alter ad alterum.
Owls will make their nests there and lay their eggs in the nests; and when the eggs hatch, the mother birds will cover them [with their wings]. There will also be falcons/hawks there, each with its 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.
If you read what is written in the book that contains messages from Yahweh, you will find out what he will do [in Edom]. All of those animals and birds will be there, and each one will have a mate, because that is what Yahweh has promised, and his Spirit will cause them [all] to gather [there].
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.
He has decided what parts of the land [of Edom] each will live in, and those are the places where each bird or animal will live. Their descendants will possess those areas forever, throughout all generations.
