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Isaiah 34

1 He sheweth that God punisheth the wicked for the love that he beareth toward his Church.
1.Come near, ye anations and hear, and hearken, ye people, let the earth hear and all that is therein, the world and all that procedeth thereof.
2.For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his wrath upon all their armies: he hath bdestroyed them and delivered them to the slaughter.
3.And their slain shalbe cast out, & their stink shall come up out of their bodies, and the mountains shalbe melted with their blood.
4.And all the host of heaven cshalbe dissolved, and the heavens shall be folden like a book: and all their hosts shall fall as the leaf falleth from the vine, and as it falleth from the figtre.
5.For my sword shalbe ddronken in the heaven, behold, it shall come down upon Edóm, even upon the people of emy curse to judgement.
6.The sword of the Lord is filled with blood: it is made fat with the fat and with the blood of the flambs and the goats, with the fat of the kidneys of the rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in gBozráh, and a great slaughter in the land of Edóm.
7.And the hunicorns shall come down with them and the heiffers with the bulls, and their land shalbe dronken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
8.For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the year of recompense for the judgement of Zión.
9.And the rivers thereof shalbe turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into ibrimstone, and the land thereof shalbe burning pitch.
10.It shall not be quenched night nor day: the smoke thereof shall go up evermore, it shalbe desolate from generation to generation: none shall pass through it for ever.
11.But the pelican kand the hedgehog shall possess it, and the great owl, and the raven shall dwell in it, and he shall stretch out upon it the line lof vanity, and the stones of emptiness.
12.mThe nobles thereof shall call to the kingdom, and there shalbe none, and all the princes thereof shalbe as nothing.
13.And it shall bring forth thorns in the palaces thereof, nettles and thistles in the strongholds thereof, and it shalbe an habitation for dragons and a court for ostriches.
14.There shall nmeet also Ziim and Jim, and the Satyr shall cry to his fellow, and the screech owl shall rest there, and shall find for her self a quiet dwelling.
15.There oshall the owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather them under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her make.
16.Seek in the pbook of the Lord and read: none of qthese shall fail, none shall want her make: for rhis mouth hath commanded, and his very Spirit hath gathered them.
17.And he hath cast the slot 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 in it.

Notes

1-a.
He prophecies of the destruction of the Edomites, and other nations which were enemies to the Church.
2-b.
God has determined in his counsel and has given sentence for their destruction.
4-c.
He speaks this in respect of man’s judgement, who in great fear and horrible troubles thinks that heaven and earth perishes.
5-d.
I have determined in my secret counsel and in the heavens to destroy them till my sword be weary with shedding blood.
5-e.
They had an opinion of holiness because they came of the Patriarch Isaac, but in effect were cursed of God and enemies unto his Church, as the Papists are.
6-f.
That is, both of young and old poor and rich of his enemies.
6-g.
That famous city shall be consumed as a sacrifice burnt to ashes.
7-h.
The mighty and rich shall be as well destroyed as the inferiors.
9-i.
He alludes to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Gen. 19.24.
11-k.
Read Ch. 13.21 and Zep. 2.14.
11-l.
In vain shall any man go about to build it again.
12-m.
Meaning, there shalbe neither order nor policy, nor state of com- monwealth.
14-n.
Read Ch. 13.21.
15-o.
Signifying that Idumea should be in horrible desolation and barren wilderness.
16-p.
That is, in Law where such curses are threatened against the wicked.
16-q.
To wit, beasts and fowls.
16-r.
That is, the mouth of the Lord.
17-s.
He has given the beasts and fowls Idumea for an inheritance.