1: 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. |
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2: 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. |
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3:
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. |
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4: 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. |
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5: For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come
down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. |
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6: 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. |
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7: 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. |
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8: For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of
recompences for the controversy of Zion. |
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9: And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the
dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning
pitch. |
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10: 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. |
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11: 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. |
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12: They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none
shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. |
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13: 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. |
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14: 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. |
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15: 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. |
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16: 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. |
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17: 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. |