[1] Draw near, O nations, to hear, and hearken, O peoples! Let the earth
listen, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes from it. [2]
For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all
their host, he has doomed them, has given them over for slaughter. [3]
Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise;
the mountains shall flow with their blood. [4] All the host of heaven shall
rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall,
as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree. [5]
For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for
judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have doomed. [6] The LORD has a
sword; it is sated with blood, it is gorged 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. [7] Wild oxen
shall fall with them, and young steers with the mighty bulls. Their land
shall be soaked with blood, and their soil made rich with fat. [8] For the
LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
[9] And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into
brimstone; her land shall become burning pitch. [10] Night and day it shall
not be quenched; its smoke shall go up for ever. From generation to
generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and
ever. [11] But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl and the
raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it,
and the plummet of chaos over its nobles. [12] They shall name it No
Kingdom There, and all its princes shall be nothing. [13] Thorns shall grow
over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be
the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches. [14] And wild beasts shall
meet with hyenas, the satyr shall cry to his fellow; yea, there shall the
night hag alight, and find for herself a resting place. [15] There shall
the owl nest and lay and hatch and gather her young in her shadow; yea,
there shall the kites be gathered, each one with her mate. [16] Seek and
read from the book of the LORD: Not one of these shall be missing; none
shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the LORD has commanded, and his
Spirit has gathered them. [17] He has cast the lot for them, his hand has
portioned it out to them with the line; they shall possess it for ever,
from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.
