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1Draw near, O nations, to hear;[#Deut 32.1; Ps 49.1]
O peoples, give heed!
Let the earth hear and all that fills it,
the world and all that comes from it.
2For the Lord is enraged against all the nations[#Isa 13.5; 26.20, 21; 30.25]
and furious against all their hordes;
he has doomed them, has given them over for slaughter.
3Their slain shall be cast out,[#Ezek 14.19; Joel 2.20]
and the stench of their corpses shall rise;
the mountains shall flow with their blood.
4All the host of heaven shall rot away,[#Ezek 32.7, 8; Joel 2.31; Mt 24.29; 2 Pet 3.10; Rev 6.13, 14]
and the skies roll up like a scroll.
All their host shall wither
like a leaf withering on a vine
or fruit withering on a fig tree.
5When my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens,[#Jer 46.10; 49.7; Mal 1.4]
upon Edom it will fall,
upon the people I have doomed to judgment.
6The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;[#Isa 63.1; Jer 49.13]
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.
7Wild oxen shall fall with them[#Ps 22.21; 68.30; Isa 29.9; 49.26]
and young steers with the mighty bulls.
Their land shall be soaked with blood,
and their soil made rich with fat.
8For the Lord has a day of vengeance,[#Isa 63.4]
a year of vindication for Zion’s cause.
9And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch[#Deut 29.23; #34.9 Heb her streams]
and her soil into sulfur;
her land shall become burning pitch.
10Night and day it shall not be quenched;[#Isa 66.24; Ezek 29.11; Mal 1.4; Rev 14.11; 19.3]
its smoke shall go up forever.
From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
no one shall pass through it forever and ever.
11But the desert owl and the screech owl shall possess it;[#2 Kings 21.13; Isa 14.23; Lam 2.8; Zeph 2.14; Rev 18.2; #34.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain; #34.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain]
the great owl and the raven shall live in it.
He shall stretch the line of confusion
and the plummet of chaos over it.
12They shall call its nobles No Kingdom There,
and all its princes shall be nothing.
13Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,[#Isa 13.22; 32.13; Jer 9.11; 10.22]
nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of jackals,
an abode for ostriches.
14Wildcats shall meet with hyenas;[#Isa 13.21]
goat-demons shall call to each other;
there also Lilith shall repose
and find a place to rest.
15There shall the owl nest[#Deut 14.13]
and lay and hatch and brood in its shadow;
there also the buzzards shall gather,
each one with its mate.
16Seek and read from the book of the Lord :[#Isa 30.8; 40.5]
Not one of these shall be missing;
none shall be without its mate.
For his mouth, it has commanded,
and his spirit, it has gathered them.
17He has cast the lot for them;[#vv 10, 11 ; Jer 13.25]
his hand has portioned it out to them with the line.
[[They shall possess it;
from generation to generation they shall live in it.