Isaiah 34 – NIRV & CCB

New International Reader’s Version

Isaiah 34:1-17

The Lord Will Judge the Nations

1Nations, come near and listen to me!

Pay attention to what I’m about to say.

Let the earth and everything in it listen.

Let the world and everything that comes out of it pay attention.

2The Lord is angry with all the nations.

His anger is against all their armies.

He will totally destroy them.

He will have them killed.

3Those who are killed won’t be buried.

Their dead bodies will be thrown on the ground.

They will stink.

Their blood will cover the mountains.

4All the stars in the sky will vanish.

The heavens will be rolled up like a scroll.

All the stars in the sky will fall like dried-up leaves from a vine.

They will drop like wrinkled figs from a fig tree.

5The sword of the Lord will finish its deadly work in the sky.

Then it will come down to strike Edom.

He will totally destroy that nation.

6His sword will be red with blood.

It will be covered with fat.

The blood will flow like the blood

of lambs and goats being sacrificed.

The fat will be like the fat

taken from the kidneys of rams.

That’s because the Lord will offer a sacrifice

in the city of Bozrah.

He will kill many people in the land of Edom.

7The people and their leaders will be killed

like wild oxen and young bulls.

Their land will be wet with their blood.

The dust will be covered with their fat.

8That’s because the Lord has set aside a day to pay Edom back.

He has set aside a year to pay them back. He will pay them back for what they did to Zion.

9The streams of Edom will be turned into tar.

Its dust will be turned into blazing sulfur.

Its land will become burning tar.

10The fire will keep burning night and day.

It can’t be put out.

Its smoke will go up forever.

Edom will lie empty for all time to come.

No one will ever travel through it again.

11The desert owl and screech owl will make it their home.

The great owl and the raven will build their nests there.

God will use his measuring line

to show how completely Edom will be destroyed.

He will use his plumb line

to show how empty Edom will become.

12Edom’s nobles won’t have anything left there

that can be called a kingdom.

All its princes will vanish.

13Thorns will cover its forts.

Bushes and weeds will cover its safest places.

It will become a home for wild dogs.

It will become a place where owls live.

14Desert creatures will meet with hyenas.

Wild goats will call out to each other.

Night creatures will also lie down there.

They will find places where they can rest.

15Owls will make their nests and lay their eggs there.

And they will hatch them.

They will take care of their little ones

under the shadow of their wings.

Male and female falcons will also gather there.

16Look in the book of the Lord. Here is what you will read there.

None of those animals will be missing.

Male and female alike will be there.

The Lord himself has commanded it.

And his Spirit will gather them together.

17The Lord will decide what part of the land goes to each animal.

Then he will give each one its share.

It will belong to them forever.

And they will live there for all time to come.

Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)

以赛亚书 34:1-17

审判列国

1列国啊,近前来听吧!

列邦啊,留心听吧!

大地和地上的万物、世界和世上的一切都要听。

2因为耶和华向列国发怒,

向他们的军队发烈怒。

祂要毁灭他们,杀尽他们。

3他们必暴尸在外,

臭气熏天,

血浸山岭。

4天上的万象必融化,

穹苍像书卷卷起;

星辰陨落,

像凋零的葡萄叶,

又像枯落的无花果。

5耶和华的刀剑在天上饱饮了血后,

必降下来惩罚以东——祂决意要毁灭的民族。

6祂的刀沾满了血和脂肪,

如同羊羔、公山羊的血和公绵羊肾脏上的脂肪。

因为耶和华要在波斯拉献祭,

以东大行杀戮。

7他们像野牛、牛犊和公牛一样倒下。

他们的土地被血浸透,

土壤被脂肪覆盖。

8因为这是耶和华报应的日子,

是祂为锡安报仇之年。

9以东的河流要变为沥青,

土壤要变成硫磺,

大地要成为燃烧的沥青,

10昼夜燃烧,浓烟滚滚,

永不止息。

以东必世世代代荒废,

人踪绝迹。

11鹈鹕和刺猬必占据那里,

猫头鹰和乌鸦必在那里做窝。

耶和华要用准绳和线锤丈量以东

使它空虚混沌。

12以东没有一个显贵可以做王,

那里所有的首领全都消失。

13那里的宫殿荆棘丛生,

蒺藜、刺草遍布坚城,

成了野狗的巢穴和鸵鸟的住处。

14在那里,豺狼和旷野的其他走兽出没,

野山羊对叫,

夜间的怪物栖息,

找到安歇之处。

15猫头鹰要在那里做窝,

产卵,孵化,

把幼鸟保护在翅膀底下,

鸷鸟也成双成对地聚集在那里。

16你们要去查考、阅读耶和华的书卷:

以上的动物一个也不会少,

无一缺少配偶。

因为这是耶和华亲口说的,

祂的灵必把它们聚在一起。

17祂亲手为它们抽签,

用准绳为它们分地。

它们必永远占据那里,

世世代代住在那里。