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Let the earth hear, and all that fills it;
the world, and all that comes out of it.
2 For the Lord’s indignation is against all the nations,
and His fury is upon all their armies;
He will completely destroy them,
He will give them over to slaughter.
3 Their slain will be cast out,
the stench will rise up from their carcasses;
and the mountains will flow with their blood.
4 All the heavenly hosts will be dissolved,
and the skies will roll up like a scroll;
all the starry hosts will fall,
like a leaf falls from the vine,
and a fig falls from the fig tree.
5 “When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens,
then it will come down on Edom,
and on the people of My curse for judgment.”
6 The sword of the Lord is bathed in blood,
it is covered with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
and with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 The wild oxen will fall with them,
and young bulls with the mighty bulls.
Their land will be soaked with blood,
and the dust will saturated with fat.
8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9 The streams of Edom will be turned into pitch,
and her dust into brimstone;
her land will become burning pitch.
10 It will not be quenched night or day;
its smoke will go up forever.
From generation to generation it will lie waste;
no one will pass through it forever and ever.
11 But the desert owl and the hedgehog will possess it;
the great owl and the raven will dwell in it.
The Lord will stretch out the line of confusion over it,
and plumb line of emptiness.
12 No nobles will remain to proclaim a king,
and all her princes will come to nothing.
13 Thorns will grow over her palaces,
nettles and thistles in her fortresses.
She will become a haunt for jackals,
and a home for ostriches.
14 The desert creatures will meet with hyenas,
and the wild goat will call to his companion;
the screech owl will settle there,
and find for herself a place of rest.
15 There the great owl will make her nest and lay eggs,
and hatch and gather them under her shadow;
the birds of prey will also gather there,
each one with its mate.
16 Search and read from the book of the Lord:
Not one of these will be missing;
not one will lack its mate.
For His mouth has commanded,
and His Spirit has gathered them.
17 He has cast the lot for them,
and His hand has portioned it out to them
with a measuring line.
They will possess it forever;
from generation to generation they will dwell in it.