Isaiah 34 Clementine Vulgate
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1 [Accedite, gentes, et audite; et populi, attendite: audiat terra, et plenitudo ejus; orbis, et omne germen ejus.
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 Quia indignatio Domini super omnes gentes, et furor super universam militiam eorum: interfecit eos, et dedit eos in occisionem.
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 Interfecti eorum projicientur, et de cadaveribus eorum ascendet fœtor; tabescent montes a sanguine eorum.
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 Et tabescet omnis militia cælorum, et complicabuntur sicut liber cæli: et omnis militia eorum defluet, sicut defluit folium de vinea et de ficu.
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 Quoniam inebriatus est in cælo gladius meus; ecce super Idumæam descendet, et super populum interfectionis meæ, ad judicium.
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 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.
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 Et descendent unicornes cum eis, et tauri cum potentibus; inebriabitur terra eorum sanguine, et humus eorum adipe pinguium.
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 Quia dies ultionis Domini, annus retributionum judicii Sion.
8 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9 Et convertentur torrentes ejus in picem, et humus ejus in sulphur; et erit terra ejus in picem ardentem.
9 Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, and its land will become burning pitch.
10 Nocte et die non extinguetur, in sempiternum ascendet fumus ejus, a generatione in generationem desolabitur, in sæcula sæculorum non erit transiens per eam.
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 Et possidebunt illam onocrotalus et ericius; ibis et corvus habitabunt in ea: et extendetur super eam mensura, ut redigatur ad nihilum, et perpendiculum in desolationem.
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 Nobiles ejus non erunt ibi; regem potius invocabunt, et omnes principes ejus erunt in nihilum.
12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
13 Et orientur in domibus ejus spinæ et urticæ, et paliurus in munitionibus ejus; et erit cubile draconum, et pascua struthionum.
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 Et occurrent dæmonia onocentauris, et pilosus clamabit alter ad alterum; ibi cubavit lamia, et invenit sibi requiem.
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 Ibi habuit foveam ericius, et enutrivit catulos, et circumfodit, et fovit in umbra ejus; illuc congregati sunt milvi, alter ad alterum.
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 Requirite diligenter in libro Domini, et legite: Unum ex eis non defuit, alter alterum non quæsivit; quia quod ex ore meo procedit, ille mandavit, et spiritus ejus ipse congregavit ea.
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 Et ipse misit eis sortem, et manus ejus divisit eam illis in mensuram: usque in æternum possidebunt eam; in generationem et generationem habitabunt in ea.]
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
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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)