Judgment on the Nations

1Come near, O nations, to hear;

and pay attention O peoples!

Let the earth hear, and its fullness,

the world, and all its offspring.

2For wrath is unto YHWH against all the nations,

and rage against all their hosts;

He has devoted them to destruction,†

He has given them over to the slaughter!

3And their slain will be thrown out,

and from their corpses their stench will rise,

and the mountains will flow with their blood.

4And all the host of heavens will be made to rot,

and the heavens will be rolled up like a scroll;

and all their host will fade away,

like the fading of a leaf from the vine

and like a falling from a fig tree.

Judgment on Edom
(Isaiah 21:11–12)

5For in the heavens My sword has drunk its fill;

behold, upon Edom it will come down,

and upon the people I have devoted to judgment.

6The sword of YHWH has been full of blood,

dripping with fat

and with the blood of lambs and goats,

with the fat of the kidneys of rams;

for a sacrifice is unto YHWH in Bozrah,

and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

7And the wild oxen will go down with them

and the young bulls with the mighty ones;

and their land will be watered with blood,

and their dust will be soaked with fat.

8For a day of vengeance is unto YHWH,

a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.†

9And her streams will be turned to pitch,

and her dust to brimstone,

and her land will become a burning pitch.

10Night and day it will not be quenched;

her smoke will ascend forever;

she will be desolate from generation to generation;

no one will pass through her forever and ever;

11and the hawk and the hedgehog will dispossess her,

and the owl and the raven will dwell in her;†

and He will stretch out over her a measuring line of confusion,

and a plumb line of emptiness.

12And nothing is there for her nobles to call a kingdom,

and all her princes will be nothing.

13And thorns will come up in her palaces,

thistles and briers in her fortresses;

and she will be a habitation of jackals,†

a courtyard for daughters of the ostrich.†

14And the desert creatures will meet with the jackals,

and the wild goat will bleat alongside his companion;

indeed, Lilith† will rest there

and find for herself a place of rest,

15There the owl will nest and lay

and hatch and gather them under her shadow;

even there will gather the birds of prey,

each with her mate.

16Search from the book of YHWH and recite:

Not one of these will go missing,

a female will not lack her mate.

For His mouth has commanded it,

and by His Spirit He has gathered them.

17And He has cast in it a lot,

and His hand has divided it among them with a measuring line;

even to forever they will possess it;

for generation and generation they will dwell in it.