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Draw near, ye nations; and hearken, ye princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people that are therein.
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For the wrath of the Lord is upon all nations, and anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter.
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And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their savour shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.
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And all the powers of the heavens shall melt, and the sky shall be rolled up like a scroll: and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig-tree.
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My sword has been made drunk in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and with judgment upon the people doomed to destruction.
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The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat, with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bosor, and a great slaughter in Idumea.
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And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the land shall be soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.
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For it is the day of judgment of the Lord, and the year of the recompence of Sion in judgment.
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And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;
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and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be made desolate throughout her generations,
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and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and satyrs shall dwell in it.
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Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed.
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And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strong holds: and they shall be habitations of monsters, and a court of ostriches.
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And devils shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the other: there shall satyrs rest, having found for themselves rest.
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There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young: there have the deer met, and seen one another's faces.
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They passed by in number, and not one of them perished: they sought not one another; for the Lord commanded them, and his Spirit gathered them.
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And he shall cast lots for them, and his hand has portioned out pasture, , Ye shall inherit for ever: they shall rest on it all generations.