[1] Come near, you nations, to hear; and listen, you peoples: let the earth
hear, and the fullness of it; the world, and all things that come forth
from it. [2] For Yahweh has indignation against all the nations, and wrath
against all their host: he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered
them to the slaughter. [3] Their slain also shall be cast out, and the
stench of their dead bodies shall come up; and the mountains shall be
melted with their blood. [4] All the host of the sky shall be dissolved,
and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host
shall fade away, as the leaf fades from off the vine, and as a fading
[leaf] from the fig-tree. [5] For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky:
behold, it shall come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, to
judgment. [6] The sword of Yahweh is filled with blood, it is made fat with
fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of
rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the
land of Edom. [7] The wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bulls
with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust
made fat with fatness. [8] For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of
recompense for the cause of Zion. [9] The streams of [Edom] shall be turned
into pitch, and the dust of it into sulfur, and the land of it shall become
burning pitch. [10] It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke of it
shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste;
none shall pass through it forever and ever. [11] But the pelican and the
porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein:
and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of
emptiness. [12] They shall call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none
shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing. [13] Thorns shall
come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses of it; and
it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. [14] The wild
animals of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall
cry to his fellow; yes, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall
find her a place of rest. [15] There shall the dart-snake make her nest,
and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yes, there shall the kites
be gathered, everyone with her mate. [16] Seek you out of the book of
Yahweh, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her
mate; for my mouth, it has commanded, and his Spirit, it has gathered them.
[17] He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them by
line: they shall possess it forever; from generation to generation shall
they dwell therein.
