Isaiah 34 decrees God's apocalyptic judgement on all nations focusing on Edom as a symbolic representative of these nations. For God is to ruthlessly and aggressively devastate the nations. "The Lord is angry with all nations... he will destroy them... their dead bodies will send up a stench... all the stars will be dissolved... it will be a great slaughter in Edom... the land will be drenched with blood... it is a day of God's vengeance and retribution... the desert owl and the screech owl will possess it... she will become a haunt for jackals... the falcons will gather each with its mate... they will possess the land for ever and dwell there from generation to generation".
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