Liber Isaiae, 34

1. accedite gentes et audite et populi adtendite audiat terra et plenitudo ejus orbis et omne germen ejus

1. Come near, ye Gentiles, and hear, and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein, the world, and every thing that cometh forth of it.

2. quia indignatio Domini super omnes gentes et furor super universam militiam eorum interfecit eos et dedit eos in occisionem

2. For the indignation of the Lord if upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath killed them, and delivered them to slaughter.

3. interfecti eorum proicientur et de cadaveribus eorum ascendet fetor tabescent montes sanguine eorum

3. Their slain shall be cast forth, and out of their carcasses shall rise a slink: the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

4. et tabescet omnis militia cælorum et conplicabuntur sicut liber cæli et omnis militia eorum defluet sicut defluit folium de vinea et de ficu

4. And all the host of the heavens shall pine away, and the heavens shall be folded together as a book: and all their host shall fall down as the leaf falleth from the vine, and from the fig tree.

5. quoniam inebriatus est in cælo gladius meus ecce super Idumeam descendet et super populum interfectionis meæ ad judicium

5. For my sword is inebriated in heaven: behold it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my slaughter unto judgment.

6. gladius Domini repletus est sanguine incrassatus est adipe de sanguine agnorum et hircorum de sanguine medullatorum arietum victima enim Domini in Bosra et interfectio magna in terra Edom

6. The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made thick with the blood of lambs and buck goats, with the blood of rams full of marrow: for there is a victim of the Lord in Bosra and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

7. et descendent unicornes cum eis et tauri cum potentibus inebriabitur terra eorum sanguine et humus eorum adipe pingujum

7. And the unicorns shall go down with them, and the bulls with the mighty: their land shall be soaked with blood, and their ground with the fat of fat ones.

8. quia dies ultionis Domini annus retributionum judicii Sion

8. For it is the day of the vengeance of the Lord, the year of recompenses of the judgment of Sion.

9. et convertentur torrentes ejus in picem et humus ejus in sulphur et erit terra ejus in picem ardentem

9. And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the ground thereof into brimstone: and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

10. nocte et die non extinguetur in sempiternum ascendet fumus ejus a generatione in generationem desolabitur in sæculum sæculorum non erit transiens per eam

10. Night and day it shall not be quenched, the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste, none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

11. et possidebunt illam onocrotalus et ericius et ibis et corvus habitabunt in ea et extendetur super eam mensura ut redigatur ad nihilum et perpendiculum in desolationem

11. The bittern and ericius shall possess it: and the ibis and the raven shall dwell in it: and a line shall be stretched out upon it, to bring it to nothing, and a plummet, unto desolation.

12. nobiles ejus non erunt ibi regem potius invocabunt et omnes principes ejus erunt in nihilum

12. The nobles thereof shall not be there: they shall call rather upon the king, and all the princes thereof shall be nothing.

13. et orientur in domibus ejus spinæ et urticæ et paliurus in munitionibus ejus et erit cubile draconum et pascua strutionum

13. And thorns and nettles shall grow up in its houses, and the thistle in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be the habitation of dragons, and the pasture of ostriches.

14. et occurrent dæmonia onocentauris et pilosus clamabit alter ad alterum ibi cubavit lamia et invenit sibi requiem

14. And demons and monsters shall meet, and the hairy ones shall cry out one to another, there hath the lamia lain down, and found rest for herself.

15. ibi habuit foveam ericius et enutrivit catulos et circumfodit et fovit in umbra ejus illuc congregati sunt milvi alter ad alterum

15. There hath the ericius had its hole, and brought up its young ones, and hath dug round about, and cherished them in the shadow thereof: thither are the kites gathered together one to another.

16. requirite diligenter in libro Domini et legite unum ex eis non defuit alter ad alterum non quæsivit quia quod ex ore meo procedit ille mandavit et spiritus ejus ipse congregavit ea

16. Search ye diligently in the book of the Lord, and read: not one of them was wanting, one hath not sought for the other: for that which proceedeth out of my mouth, he hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

17. et ipse misit eis sortem et manus ejus divisit eam illis in mensuram usque in æternum possidebunt eam in generatione et generatione habitabunt in ea

17. And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it to them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation they shall dwell therein.