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Come near, ye nations, to hear; and
hearken, ye people: let the earth
hear, and all that is therein; the
world, and all things that come
forth of it. For the indignation
of the LORD is upon all nations,
and his fury upon all their armies:
he hath utterly destroyed them,
he hath delivered them to the
slaughter. Their slain also shall
be cast out, and their stink shall
come up out of their carcases,
and the mountains shall be
melted with their blood. And
all the host of heaven shall be
dissolved, and the heavens
shall be rolled together as a
scroll: and all their host shall
fall down, as the leaf falleth
off from the vine, and as a
falling fig from the fig tree.
For my sword shall be bathed
in heaven: behold, it shall
come down upon Idumea, and
upon the people of my curse, to
judgment. The sword of the LORD
is filled with blood, it is made fat
with fatness, and 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 Idumea.
And the unicorns shall come down
with them, and the bullocks with the
bulls; and their land shall be soaked
with blood, and their dust made fat
with fatness. For it is the day of the
LORD’S vengeance, and the year
of recompences for the controversy
of Zion. And the streams thereof
shall be turned into pitch, and the
dust thereof into brimstone, and the
land thereof shall become burning
pitch. 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.
But the cormorant and the bittern shall
possess it; the owl also and the raven
shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch
out upon it the line of confusion,
and the stones of emptiness. They shall
call the nobles thereof to the kingdom,
but none shall be there, and all her princes
shall be nothing. And thorns shall come
up in her palaces, nettles and brambles
in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be
an habitation of dragons, and a court for
owls. The wild beasts of the desert shall
also meet with the wild beasts of the island,
and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the
screech owl also shall rest there, and find
for herself a place of rest. There shall
the great owl make her nest, and lay, and
hatch, and gather under her shadow: there
shall the vultures also be gathered, every
one with her mate. Seek ye out of the book
of the LORD, and read: no one of these
shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my
mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it
hath gathered them. 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.
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