Isaiah 34:16
Search and read the scroll of the LORD:
What it says
The reader is told to search the LORD's scroll and see that none of this will fail.
What it is doing
This verse anchors the vision in the certainty of divine decree.
In context
5When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, 6The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. 7And the wild oxen will fall with them, 8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, 9Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, 10It will not be quenched— day or night. 11The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, 12No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, 13Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, 14The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, 15There the owl will make her nest; 16Search and read the scroll of the LORD: 17He has allotted their portion;