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Isaiah 34 World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)

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WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
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.
1 GENTES, allegaos á oir; y escuchad, pueblos. Oiga la tierra y lo que la hinche, el mundo y todo lo que él produce.
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.
2 Porque Jehová está airado sobre todas las gentes, é irritado sobre todo el ejército de ellas: destruirálas y entregarálas al matadero.
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.
3 Y los muertos de ellas serán arrojados, y de sus cadáveres se levantará hedor; y los montes se desleirán por la sangre de ellos.
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.
4 Y todo el ejército de los cielos se corromperá, y plegarse han los cielos como un libro: y caerá todo su ejército, como se cae la hoja de la parra, y como se cae la de la higuera.
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.
5 Porque en los cielos se embriagará mi espada: he aquí que descenderá sobre Edom en juicio, y sobre el pueblo de mi anatema.
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.
6 Llena está de sangre la espada de Jehová, engrasada está de grosura, de sangre de corderos y de cabritos, de grosura de riñones de carneros: porque Jehová tiene sacrificios en Bosra, y grande matanza en tierra de Edom.
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.
7 Y con ellos vendrán abajo unicornios, y toros con becerros; y su tierra se embriagará de sangre, y su polvo se engrasará de grosura.
8 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
8 Porque es día de venganza de Jehová, año de retribuciones en el pleito de Sión.
9 Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, and its land will become burning pitch.
9 Y sus arroyos se tornarán en pez, y su polvo en azufre, y su tierra en pez ardiente.
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.
10 No se apagará de noche ni de día, perpetuamente subirá su humo: de generación en generación será asolada, nunca jamás pasará nadie por ella.
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.
11 Y la poseerán el pelícano y el mochuelo, la lechuza y el cuervo morarán en ella: y extenderáse sobre ella cordel de destrucción, y niveles de asolamiento.
12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.
12 Llamarán á sus príncipes, príncipes sin reino: y todos sus grandes serán nada.
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.
13 En sus alcázares crecerán espinas, y ortigas y cardos en sus fortalezas; y serán morada de chacales, patio para los pollos de los avestruces.
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.
14 Y las bestias monteses se encontrarán con los gatos cervales, y el peludo gritará á su compañero: la lamia también tendrá allí asiento, y hallará para sí reposo.
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.
15 Allí anidará el cuclillo, conservará [sus huevos], y sacará [sus pollos], y juntarálos debajo de sus alas: también se ayuntarán allí buitres, cada uno con su compañera.
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.
16 Inquirid en el libro de Jehová, y leed si faltó alguno de ellos: ninguno faltó con su compañera; porque su boca mandó, y reuniólos su mismo espíritu.
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.
17 Y él les echó las suertes, y su mano les repartió con cordel: para siempre la tendrán por heredad, de generación en generación morarán allí.
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 1 Corinthians 10:26; Isaiah 43:9; Isaiah 1:2; Isaiah 41:1; Micah 6:1–2
  2. 2 Zephaniah 3:8; Jeremiah 25:15–29; Amos 1:1–2; Joel 3:9–14; Zechariah 14:12–16
  3. 3 Joel 2:20; Ezekiel 39:4; Isaiah 34:7; 2 Kings 9:35–37; Jeremiah 8:1–2
  4. 4 Revelation 6:13–14; Matthew 24:29; Ezekiel 32:7–8; Joel 3:15; Psalm 102:25–26
  5. 5 Jeremiah 46:10; Isaiah 63:1; Malachi 1:4; Amos 1:11–12; Jeremiah 49:7–22
  6. 6 Isaiah 63:1; Jeremiah 49:13; Jeremiah 51:40; Deuteronomy 32:14; Jeremiah 50:27
  7. 7 Psalm 68:30; Numbers 23:22; Jeremiah 50:27; Jeremiah 50:11; Numbers 24:8
  8. 8 Isaiah 63:4; Isaiah 61:2; Isaiah 35:4; Jeremiah 46:10; Psalm 94:1
  9. 9 Deuteronomy 29:23; Revelation 21:8; Psalm 11:6; Luke 17:29; Revelation 19:20
  10. 10 Revelation 19:3; Isaiah 66:24; Malachi 1:3–4; Isaiah 13:20; Revelation 18:18
  11. 11 Lamentations 2:8; 2 Kings 21:13; Zephaniah 2:14; Revelation 18:2; Isaiah 14:23
  12. 12 Isaiah 3:6–8; Ecclesiastes 10:16–17; Isaiah 41:24; 2 Corinthians 12:11; 1 Corinthians 8:4
  13. 13 Jeremiah 9:11; Jeremiah 10:22; Malachi 1:3; Psalm 44:19; Hosea 9:6
  14. 14 Isaiah 13:21–22
  15. 15 Deuteronomy 14:13
  16. 16 Psalm 33:9; Joshua 1:8; Matthew 5:18; Isaiah 30:8; Psalm 33:6
  17. 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).

How these were chosen

“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).

  1. Quotes verse 34:4 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book XIII, Chapters XII–XV)

    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)

  2. Quotes verse 34:4 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XV)

    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)