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title: "Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 3"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "William Pringle"
languages: [en]
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section: 41 of 56
url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-3/41/
cite: "John Calvin, tr. William Pringle, Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 3, section 41. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-3/41/"
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# Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 3

*John Calvin, tr. William Pringle*

Calvin on the prophet Isaiah, volume 3 of 4.

## 41. Chapter 34

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[¶0] 1 Draw near, ye nations, to hear; And ye peoples, hearken. Let the earth hear, And its fullness; The world, And all its productions.

[¶1] 2 For the indignation of Jehovah is on all nations, And his fury on all their army; He hath destroyed them; He hath delivered them to slaughter.

[¶2] 3 Their slain shall be east out; And from their carcasses shall come up their stench; And the mountains shall melt on account of their blood.

[¶3] 4 And all the armies of heaven shall fade away, And shall be rolled up as a scroll. The heavens And all their armies shall fall down, As a leaf falleth down from a vine, And as it falleth from the fig-tree.

[¶4] 5 For my sword is made drunken in the heavens. Behold, it shall come down on Edom, Even on the people of my curse to judgment.

[¶5] 6 The sword of Jehovah hath been filled with blood; It hath been made fat with fatness; Even with the blood of lambs And of goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams; For the sacrifice of Jehovah is on Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

[¶6] 7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, And the bullocks with the bulls; And their land shall be made drunken with blood, And their dust shall be made fat with fatness.

[¶7] 8 For (it is) the day of vengeance of Jehovah, The year of recompenses for the cause of Zion.

[¶8] 9 And her streams shall be turned into pitch, And her dust into brimstone; And her land shall become burning pitch.

[¶9] 10 By night And by day it shall not be quenched; Its smoke shall continually go up; From generation to generation it shall lie waste; Tone shall pass through it for ever And ever.

[¶10] 11 Therefore shall the pelican And the owl take possession of it; The great owl And the raven shall dwell in it; And he shall stretch over it the cord of emptiness, And the plummets of vanity.

[¶11] 12 They shall call her nobles without a kingdom, And all her princes shall be nothing.

[¶12] 13 In her palaces she shall bring forth thorns, And nettles And thistles in her fortresses; And she shall be a habitation for dragons, And an abode for the young ones of the ostrich.

[¶13] 14 And the wild beasts shall meet with the satyrs; And the screech-owl shall cry to his companion; There also shall the fairy dwell, And shall find for herself a peaceful abode.

[¶14] 15 There shall the owl make her nest, And lay, And hatch And gather her young under her shadow; Yea, there shall the vultures be gathered together, Every one with her mate.

[¶15] 16 Inquire at the book of Jehovah, And read. Not one of those shall fail; Tot one shall want her mate; For his mouth hath commanded, And his Spirit hath gathered them.

[¶16] 17 And he hath cast the lot for them; And his hand hath divided it to them for ever, as by a cord. Therefore they shall inhabit it; From generation to generation they shall dwell in it.