Come near , O nations , to listen ; pay attention , O peoples. Let the earth hear , and all that fills it , the world and all that springs from it.
- The LORD is angry with ... all ... the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction ; He will give them over to slaughter.
Their slain will be left unburied , and the stench of their corpses will rise ; the mountains will flow with their blood.
All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll , and all their stars ... will fall like withered leaves from the vine , like foliage from the fig tree.
When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens , then it will come down upon Edom , upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips with fat — with the blood of lambs and goats , with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah , a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
And the wild oxen will fall with them , the young bulls with the strong (ones). Their land will be drenched with blood , and their soil will be soaked with fat.
For the LORD has a day of vengeance , a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
(Edom’s) streams will be turned to tar , and her soil to sulfur ; her land will become a blazing pitch.
It will not be quenched — day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate ; no one will ever again ... pass
The desert owl and screech owl will possess it , and the great owl and raven will dwell The LORD will stretch out over (Edom) a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.
No ... nobles will be left to proclaim a king , and all her princes will come to nothing.
Her towers will be overgrown with thorns , her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals , an abode vvv for ostriches.
The desert creatures - will meet with hyenas , and one wild goat will call to another. vvv There the night creature will settle and find place of repose.
There the owl will make her nest ; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather , each with its mate.
Search ... and read the scroll of the LORD : Not one will go missing , not one ... will lack her mate , because He has ordered it by His mouth , and He will gather them by His Spirit.
He has allotted portion ; His hand has distributed by measure. They will possess it forever ... ; they will dwell from generation to generation.