| Berean Study Bible | New Living Translation |
| 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 here and listen, O nations of the earth. Let the world and everything in it hear my words. |
| 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 enraged against the nations. His fury is against all their armies. He will completely destroy them, dooming them to slaughter. |
| 3Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood. | 3Their dead will be left unburied, and the stench of rotting bodies will fill the land. The mountains will flow 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. | 4The heavens above will melt away and disappear like a rolled-up scroll. The stars will fall from the sky like withered leaves from a grapevine, or shriveled figs from a 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. | 5And when my sword has finished its work in the heavens, it will fall upon Edom, the nation I have marked for destruction. |
| 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 drenched with blood and covered with fat— with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of rams prepared for sacrifice. Yes, the LORD will offer a sacrifice in the city of Bozrah. He will make a mighty slaughter in 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. | 7Even men as strong as wild oxen will die— the young men alongside the veterans. The land will be soaked with blood and the soil enriched with fat. |
| 8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. | 8For it is the day of the LORD’s revenge, the year when Edom will be paid back for all it did to Israel. |
| 9Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch. | 9The streams of Edom will be filled with burning pitch, and the ground will be covered with fire. |
| 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. | 10This judgment on Edom will never end; the smoke of its burning will rise forever. The land will lie deserted from generation to generation. No one will live there anymore. |
| 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. | 11It will be haunted by the desert owl and the screech owl, the great owl and the raven. For God will measure that land carefully; he will measure it for chaos and destruction. |
| 12No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing. | 12It will be called the Land of Nothing, and all its nobles will soon be gone. |
| 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 its palaces; nettles and thistles will grow in its forts. The ruins will become a haunt for jackals and 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 animals will mingle there with hyenas, their howls filling the night. Wild goats will bleat at one another among the ruins, and night creatures will come there to 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. | 15There the owl will make her nest and lay her eggs. She will hatch her young and cover them with her wings. And the buzzards will come, each one 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. | 16Search the book of the LORD, and see what he will do. Not one of these birds and animals will be missing, and none will lack a mate, for the LORD has promised this. His Spirit will make it all come true. |
| 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 has surveyed and divided the land and deeded it over to those creatures. They will possess it forever, from generation to generation. |
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