| Berean Study Bible | NET Bible |
| 1Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it. | 1Come near, you nations, and listen! Pay attention, you people! The earth and everything it contains must listen, the world and everything that lives in it. |
| 2The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter. | 2For the LORD is angry at all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will annihilate them and slaughter them. |
| 3Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood. | 3Their slain will be left unburied, their corpses will stink; the hills will soak up their blood. |
| 4All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree. | 4All the stars in the sky will fade away, the sky will roll up like a scroll; all its stars will wither, like a leaf withers and falls from a vine or a fig withers and falls from a tree. |
| 5When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction. | 5He says, "Indeed, my sword has slaughtered heavenly powers. Look, it now descends on Edom, on the people I will annihilate in judgment." |
| 6The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips 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. | 6The LORD's sword is dripping with blood, it is covered with fat; it drips with the blood of young rams and goats and is covered with the fat of rams' kidneys. For the LORD is holding a sacrifice in Bozrah, a bloody slaughter in the land of Edom. |
| 7And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat. | 7Wild oxen will be slaughtered along with them, as well as strong bulls. Their land is drenched with blood, their soil is covered with fat. |
| 8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. | 8For the LORD has planned a day of revenge, a time when he will repay Edom for her hostility toward Zion. |
| 9Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch. | 9Edom's streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch. |
| 10It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it. | 10Night and day it will burn; its smoke will ascend continually. Generation after generation it will be a wasteland and no one will ever pass through it again. |
| 11The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction. | 11Owls and wild animals will live there, all kinds of wild birds will settle in it. The LORD will stretch out over her the measuring line of ruin and the plumb line of destruction. |
| 12No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing. | 12Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdom and all her officials will disappear. |
| 13Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches. | 13Her fortresses will be overgrown with thorns; thickets and weeds will grow in her fortified cities. Jackals will settle there; ostriches will live there. |
| 14The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose. | 14Wild animals and wild dogs will congregate there; wild goats will bleat to one another. Yes, nocturnal animals will rest there and make for themselves a nest. |
| 15There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate. | 15Owls will make nests and lay eggs there; they will hatch them and protect them. Yes, hawks will gather there, each with its mate. |
| 16Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit. | 16Carefully read the scroll of the LORD! Not one of these creatures will be missing, none will lack a mate. For the LORD has issued the decree, and his own spirit gathers them. |
| 17He has allotted their portion; His hand has distributed it by measure. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation. | 17He assigns them their allotment; he measures out their assigned place. They will live there permanently; they will settle in it through successive generations. |
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