Isaiah · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Isaiah 34 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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Notes on this text (1)
- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
1 Draw near, ye nations; and hearken, ye princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people that are therein.
1 Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear, the world, and everything that comes from it.
2 For the wrath of the Lord is upon all nations, and [his] anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter.
2 For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter.
3 And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their [ill] savor shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.
3 Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up. The mountains will melt in their blood.
4 And all the powers of the heavens shall melt, and the sky shall be rolled up like a scroll: and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig tree.
4 All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
5 My sword has been made drunk in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and with judgment upon the people doomed to destruction.
5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.
6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat, with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in Edom.
6 Yahweh’s sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the land shall be soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.
7 The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat.
8 For it is the day of the judgment of the Lord, and the year of the recompense of Zion in judgment.
8 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9 And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;
9 Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, and its land will become burning pitch.
10 and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be made desolate throughout her generations,
10 It won’t be quenched night or day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever.
11 and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and satyrs shall dwell in it.
11 But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
12 Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed.
12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
13 And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strongholds: and they shall be habitations of monsters, and a court for ostriches.
13 Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
14 And devils shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the other: there shall satyrs rest, having found for themselves [a place of] rest.
14 The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night creature shall settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest.
15 There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young: there have the deer met, and seen one another’s faces.
15 The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.
16 They passed by in [full] number, and not one of them perished: they sought not one another; for the Lord commanded them, and his Spirit gathered them.
16 Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.
17 And he shall cast lots for them, and his hand has portioned out [their] pasture, [saying], Ye shall inherit [the land] forever: they shall rest on it [through] all generations.
17 He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever. From generation to generation they will dwell in it.
Cross references (17)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 1 Corinthians 10:26; Isaiah 43:9; Isaiah 1:2; Isaiah 41:1; Micah 6:1–2
- 2 Zephaniah 3:8; Jeremiah 25:15–29; Amos 1:1–2; Joel 3:9–14; Zechariah 14:12–16
- 3 Joel 2:20; Ezekiel 39:4; Isaiah 34:7; 2 Kings 9:35–37; Jeremiah 8:1–2
- 4 Revelation 6:13–14; Matthew 24:29; Ezekiel 32:7–8; Joel 3:15; Psalm 102:25–26
- 5 Jeremiah 46:10; Isaiah 63:1; Malachi 1:4; Amos 1:11–12; Jeremiah 49:7–22
- 6 Isaiah 63:1; Jeremiah 49:13; Jeremiah 51:40; Deuteronomy 32:14; Jeremiah 50:27
- 7 Psalm 68:30; Numbers 23:22; Jeremiah 50:27; Jeremiah 50:11; Numbers 24:8
- 8 Isaiah 63:4; Isaiah 61:2; Isaiah 35:4; Jeremiah 46:10; Psalm 94:1
- 9 Deuteronomy 29:23; Revelation 21:8; Psalm 11:6; Luke 17:29; Revelation 19:20
- 10 Revelation 19:3; Isaiah 66:24; Malachi 1:3–4; Isaiah 13:20; Revelation 18:18
- 11 Lamentations 2:8; 2 Kings 21:13; Zephaniah 2:14; Revelation 18:2; Isaiah 14:23
- 12 Isaiah 3:6–8; Ecclesiastes 10:16–17; Isaiah 41:24; 2 Corinthians 12:11; 1 Corinthians 8:4
- 13 Jeremiah 9:11; Jeremiah 10:22; Malachi 1:3; Psalm 44:19; Hosea 9:6
- 14 Isaiah 13:21–22
- 15 Deuteronomy 14:13
- 16 Psalm 33:9; Joshua 1:8; Matthew 5:18; Isaiah 30:8; Psalm 33:6
- 17 Isaiah 34:10; Acts 17:26; Jeremiah 13:25; Isaiah 17:14; Psalm 78:55
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Yea, both heaven and earth shall pass away, but Thy Words shall not pass away. Because the scroll shall be rolled together, and the grass over which it was spread shall with its goodliness pass away; but Thy Word remaineth for ever, which now appeareth unto us in the dark image of the clouds, and through the glass of the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
Listen to Esaias, saying, And the heaven shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all the stars shall fall, as leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig-tree.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)