Common English Bible

Isaiah 34:4-9 Common English Bible (CEB)

4. All the stars of heaven will dissolve,the skies will roll up like a scroll,and all the stars will fall,like a leaf withering from a vine,like fruit from a fig tree.

5. When my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens,it will descend upon Edom for judgment,upon a people I have doomed for destruction.

6. The Lord has a sword covered with blood;it is soaked with fatfrom the blood of lambs and goats,from the kidney fat of rams,for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

7. Wild oxen will fall with them,steers with mighty bulls,and their land will be drenched with blood;its soil soaked with fat.

8. The Lord has a day of vengeance,a year of payback for Zion’s cause.

9. Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,its dust into sulfur,and its land will become burning pitch.