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914 Prophecy of Isaias

is made thick with the blood of lambs and buck not sought for the other: for that which pro-
goats, with the blood of rams full of marrow: for ceedeth out of my mouth, he hath commanded,
there is a victim of the Lord in Bosra and a great and his spirit it hath gathered them.
slaughter in the land of Edom. 17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his
7 And the unicorns shall go down with them, hand hath divided it to them by line: they shall
and the bulls with the mighty: their land shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation
be soaked with blood, and their ground with the they shall dwell therein.
fat of fat ones.
8 For it is the day of the vengeance of the
Lord, the year of recompenses of the judgment Chapter 35
of Sion.
The land that was desolate and impassable shall
9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into
be glad, and the wilderness shall rejoice, and
pitch, and the ground thereof into brimstone:
shall flourish like the lily.
and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
10 Night and day it shall not be quenched, the 2 It shall bud forth and blossom, and shall re-
smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from gener- joice with joy and praise: the glory of Libanus is
ation to generation it shall lie waste, none shall given to it: the beauty of Carmel, and Saron,
pass through it for ever and ever. they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the
11 The bittern and ericius shall possess it: and beauty of our God.
the ibis and the raven shall dwell in it: and a 3 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm
line shall be stretched out upon it, to bring it to the weak knees.
nothing, and a plummet, unto desolation. 4 Say to the fainthearted: Take courage, and
12 The nobles thereof shall not be there: they fear not: behold your God will bring the revenge
shall call rather upon the king, and all the of recompense: God himself will come and will
princes thereof shall be nothing. save you.
13 And thorns and nettles shall grow up in its 5 Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened,
houses, and the thistle in the fortresses thereof: and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
and it shall be the habitation of dragons, and 6 Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and
the pasture of ostriches. the tongue of the dumb shall be free: for waters
14 And demons and monsters shall meet, and are broken out in the desert, and streams in the
the hairy ones shall cry out one to another, there wilderness.
hath the lamia lain down, and found rest for her- 7 And that which was dry land, shall become
self. a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water. In
15 There hath the ericius had its hole, and the dens where dragons dwelt before, shall rise
brought up its young ones, and hath dug up the verdure of the reed and the bulrush.
round about, and cherished them in the shadow 8 And a path and a way shall be there, and
thereof: thither are the kites gathered together it shall be called the holy way: the unclean shall
one to another. not pass over it, and this shall be unto you a
16 Search ye diligently in the book of the Lord, straight way, so that fools shall not err therein.
and read: not one of them was wanting, one hath 9 No lion shall be there, nor shall any mis-