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Isaiah 34:7-14 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

7. And the single-horned beasts will descend with them, and the bulls along with the mighty. Their land will be inebriated by blood, and their ground by the fat of their lazy ones.

8. For this is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, the year of retribution for the judgment of Zion.

9. And its torrents will be turned into tar, and its soil into sulfur. And its land will become burning tar.

10. Night and day, it will not be extinguished; its smoke will rise up without ceasing. From generation to generation it will remain desolate. No one will pass through it, forever and ever.

11. The pelican and the hedgehog will possess it. And the ibis and the raven will live in it. And a measuring line will be extended over it, so that it may be reduced to nothing, and a plumb line, unto desolation.

12. Its nobles will not be in that place. Instead, they will call upon the king, and all its leaders will be as nothing.

13. And thorns and nettles will rise up in its houses, and the thistle in its fortified places. And it will be the lair of serpents and the pasture of ostriches.

14. And demons and monsters will meet, and the hairy ones will cry out to one another. There, the ogress has lain down and found rest for herself.

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