1Draw near, O nations, to hear; and listen, O peoples!
            Let the earth and all it contains hear, and the world and all that springs from it.

     2For the LORD’s indignation is against all the nations,
            And His wrath against all their armies;
            He has utterly destroyed them,
            He has given them over to slaughter.

     3So their slain will be thrown out,
            And their corpses will give off their stench,
            And the mountains will be drenched with their blood.

     4And all the host of heaven will wear away,
            And the sky will be rolled up like a scroll;
            All their hosts will also wither away
            As a leaf withers from the vine,
            Or as one withers from the fig tree.

     5For My sword is satiated in heaven,
            Behold it shall descend for judgment upon Edom,
            And upon the people whom I have devoted to destruction.

     6The sword of the LORD is filled with blood,
            It is sated 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,
            And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

     7Wild oxen shall also fall with them,
            And young bulls with strong ones;
            Thus their land shall be soaked with blood,
            And their dust become greasy with fat.

     8For the LORD has a day of vengeance,
            A year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

     9And its streams shall be turned into pitch,
            And its loose earth into brimstone,
            And its land shall become burning pitch.

     10It shall not be quenched night or day;
            Its smoke shall go up forever;
            From generation to generation it shall be desolate;
            None shall pass through it forever and ever.

     11But pelican and hedgehog shall possess it,
            And owl and raven shall dwell in it;
            And He shall stretch over it the line of desolation
            And the plumb line of emptiness.

     12Its nobles—there is no one there
            Whom they may proclaim king—
            And all its princes shall be nothing.

     13And thorns shall come up in its fortified towers,
            Nettles and thistles in its fortified cities;
            It shall also be a haunt of jackals
            And an abode of ostriches.

     14And the desert creatures shall meet with the wolves,
            The hairy goat also shall cry to its kind;
            Yes, the night monster shall settle there
            And shall find herself a resting place.

     15The tree snake shall make its nest and lay eggs there,
            And it will hatch and gather them under its protection.
            Yes, the hawks shall be gathered there,
            Every one with its kind.

     16Seek from the book of the LORD, and read:
            Not one of these will be missing;
            None will lack its mate.
            For His mouth has commanded,
            And His Spirit has gathered them.

     17And 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 they shall dwell in it.