| Berean Study Bible | New International Version |
| 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 peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world, and all that comes out of 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. | 2The LORD is angry with all nations; his wrath is on all their armies. He will totally destroy them, he will give them over to slaughter. |
| 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 thrown out, their dead bodies will stink; the mountains will be soaked with 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 be dissolved and the heavens rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like shriveled figs from the fig 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. | 5My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; see, it descends in judgment on Edom, the people I have totally destroyed. |
| 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 sword of the LORD is bathed in blood, it is covered with fat-- the blood of lambs and goats, fat from the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great 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. | 7And the wild oxen will fall with them, the bull calves and the great bulls. Their land will be drenched with blood, and the dust will be soaked with fat. |
| 8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. | 8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion's cause. |
| 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, her dust into burning sulfur; her land will become blazing 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. | 10It will not be quenched night or day; its smoke will rise forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; 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. | 11The desert owl and screech owl will possess it; the great owl and the raven will nest there. God will stretch out over Edom the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of desolation. |
| 12No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing. | 12Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom, all her princes will vanish away. |
| 13Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches. | 13Thorns will overrun her citadels, nettles and brambles her strongholds. She will become a haunt for jackals, a home for owls. |
| 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. | 14Desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and wild goats will bleat to each other; there the night creatures will also lie down and find for themselves places of rest. |
| 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. | 15The owl will nest there and lay eggs, she will hatch them, and care for her young under the shadow of her wings; there also the falcons will gather, 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. | 16Look in the scroll of the LORD and read: None of these will be missing, not one will lack her mate. For it is his mouth that has given the order, and his Spirit will gather them together. |
| 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 allots their portions; his hand distributes them by measure. They will possess it forever and dwell there from generation to generation. |
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