Isaiah 34:1-3

The Lord Will Judge Edom

34:1 Come near, you nations, and listen!

Pay attention, you people!

The earth and everything it contains must listen,

the world and everything that lives in it. ¹ 

34:2 For the Lord is angry at all the nations

and furious with all their armies.

He will annihilate them and slaughter them.

34:3 Their slain will be left unburied, ² 

their corpses will stink; ³ 

the hills will soak up their blood. ⁴ 

[34:1]  ¹ tn Heb “the world and its offspring”; NASB “the world and all that springs from it.”

[34:3]  ² tn Heb “will be cast aside”; NASB, NIV “thrown out.”

[34:3]  ³ tn Heb “[as for] their corpses, their stench will arise.”

[34:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “hills will dissolve from their blood.”