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34.5 :And upon the people of My ban, to judgment.
 * The sword of the is filled with blood,
 * It is made fat with fatness,
 * With the blood of lambs and goats,
 * With the fat of the kidneys of rams;
 * For the hath a sacrifice in Bozrah,
 * And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
 * And the wild-oxen shall come down with them,
 * And the bullocks with the bulls;
 * And their land shall be drunken with blood,
 * And their dust made fat with fatness.
 * For the hath a day of vengeance,
 * A year of recompense for the controversy of Zion.
 * And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch,
 * And the dust thereof into brimstone,
 * And the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
 * It shall not be quenched night nor day,
 * The smoke thereof shall go up for ever;
 * From generation to generation it shall lie waste:
 * None shall pass through it for ever and ever.
 * But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it,
 * And the owl and the raven shall dwell therein;
 * And He shall stretch over it
 * The line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
 * As for her nobles, none shall be there to be called to the kingdom;
 * And all her princes shall be nothing.
 * And thorns shall come up in her palaces,
 * Nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof;
 * And it shall be a habitation of wild-dogs,
 * An enclosure for ostriches.
 * And the wild-cats shall meet with the jackals,
 * And the satyr shall cry to his fellow;
 * Yea, the night-monster shall repose there,
 * And shall find her a place of rest.
 * There shall the arrowsnake make her nest, and lay,
 * And hatch, and brood under her shadow;
 * Yea, there shall the kites be gathered,
 * Every one with her mate.
 * Seek ye out of the book of the, and read;
 * No one of these shall be missing,
 * None shall want her mate;
 * For My mouth it hath commanded,
 * And the breath thereof it hath gathered them.
 * And He hath cast the lot 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 therein.


 * The wilderness and the parched land shall be glad;
 * And the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
 * It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice,
 * Even with joy and singing;
 * The glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it,
 * The excellency of Carmel and Sharon;
 * They shall see the glory of the ,
 * The excellency of our God.