Isaías 34

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

8 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance,

a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

9 Its streams will be turned into pitch,

its dust into sulfur,

and its land will become burning pitch.

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.

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.

12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there;

and all its princes shall be nothing.

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.

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*34:14 literally, lilith, which could also be a night demon or night monster shall settle there,

and shall find herself a place of rest.

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.

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.

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.

Ka Whiua e Ihowā Āna Hoariri

1 Whakatata mai, e ngā iwi, kia rongo ai;

kia whai taringa mai, e ngā iwi!

Kia rongo te whenua, me ngā mea e hua ana i runga,

te ao, me ngā mea katoa e puta ana i roto i a ia.

2 Kei runga hoki i ngā iwi katoa te riri o Ihowā,

tōna weriweri kei runga i ō rātou ope katoa;

ngaro rawa i a ia, tukua ana kia patua.

3 Ka ākiritia atu anō ō rātou tūpāpaku i patua,

ka puta ake hoki te piro o ō rātou tinana;

ā, ka rewa ngā maunga i ō rātou toto.

4 Nā, ka memeha ngā ope katoa o te rangi,

ko ngā rangi, koia anō kei te pukapuka i pōkaia.

Ko ō rātou ope katoa ka whakangaro haere,

koia anō kei te rau wāina ka marere nei,

kei te rau piki e marere ana i runga i te rākau piki.

5 Kua inu hoki tāku hoari, mākona ana, i te rangi;

nanā, ka tae iho ki a Ēroma,

ki te iwi i kangā e ahau, ki te whakarite whakawā.

6 Kī tonu te hoari a Ihowā i te toto;

kua mōmona i te ngako,

i te toto o ngā reme, o ngā koati,

i te ngako o ngā whatukuhu o ngā hipi toa;

he patunga tapu hoki tā Ihowā i Potora,

he parekura nui i te whenua o Ēroma.

7 Ā, ka haere tahi mai i roto i a rātou ngā kau mākā,

ngā kau ōkiha rātou ko ngā pūru;

ā, ka haurangi tō rātou whenua i te toto,

ka mōmona tō rātou puehu i te ngako.

8 Ko te rā hoki ia o tā Ihowā rapu utu,

ko te tau whakautu mō tā Hiona totohe.

9 Ā, ka puta kē ōna awa hei kāpia,

ko tōna puehu hei whānāriki;

nā, ko tōna whenua, he kāpia e kā ana!

10 E kore e tineia i te pō, i te ao;

ka kake tōna paowa ake ake.

I tērā whakatupuranga, i tērā whakatupuranga ka takoto he ururua kau;

e kore tētahi tangata e tika nā reira ā ake tonu atu.

11 Ka riro anō a reira hei kāinga mō te kawau, mō te matuku;

ka noho anō te ruru rāua ko te raweni ki reira.

Ka whakamārōkia anō hoki e ia te taura o te pororaru ki runga,

me te kōhatu whakatika o te kore noa iho.

12 Ka karangatia ōna rangatira kia whakakīngitia, kāhore tētahi e tae mai;

ā, ka kore noa iho ōna rangatira katoa.

13 Ā, ka tupu te tātarāmoa ki ōna whare kīngi,

he ongaonga, he tūmatakuru ki ōna pā kaha,

ā, ka waiho hei nohoanga mō te kīrehe mohoao,

hei marae mō te otereti.

14 Ko ngā kurī mohoao o te koraha ka tūtaki ki ngā wuruhi,

ka karanga te mea āhua koati ki tōna hoa;

ka takoto anō te ngārara haere pō ki reira,

ka kitea he okiokinga mōna ki reira.

15 Ka hangā anō e te ruru nui tōna kōhanga ki reira,

whānau iho, pao iho ngā hua,

whakamine anō ki raro i tōna taumarumarunga iho;

ka huihui anō ki reira ngā whatura,

rātou ko tāna tāne, ko tāna tāne.

16 Rapua i roto i tā Ihowā pukapuka, kōrerotia hoki:

E kore tētahi o ēnei e ngaro,

e kore tētahi o ēnei e hapa i te tāne māna.

Nā tōku māngai nei hoki te whakahau,

ko tōna wairua anō tō rātou kaiwhakamine.

17 Nāna hoki i maka te rota mō tā rātou,

nā tōna ringa anō i wehewehe taua wāhi mō rātou, mea rawa ki te aho;

hei kāinga a reira mō rātou ā ake ake,

ka nohoia a reira e rātou i tēnā whakatupuranga, i tēnā whakatupuranga.