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| 1Come here and listen, O nations of the earth. Let the world and everything in it hear my words. | 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! |
| 2For the LORD is enraged against the nations. His fury is against all their armies. He will completely destroy them, dooming them 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 dead will be left unburied, and the stench of rotting bodies will fill the land. 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 5And when my sword has finished its work in the heavens, it will fall upon Edom, the nation I have marked for 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 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. | 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. |
| 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. | 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 it is the day of the LORD’s revenge, the year when Edom will be paid back for all it did to Israel. | 8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion's cause. |
| 9The streams of Edom will be filled with burning pitch, and the ground will be covered with fire. | 9Edom's streams will be turned into pitch, her dust into burning sulfur; her land will become blazing pitch! |
| 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. | 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. |
| 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. | 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. |
| 12It will be called the Land of Nothing, and all its nobles will soon be gone. | 12Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom, all her princes will vanish away. |
| 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. | 13Thorns will overrun her citadels, nettles and brambles her strongholds. She will become a haunt for jackals, a home for owls. |
| 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. | 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 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. | 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 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. | 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 surveyed and divided the land and deeded it over to those creatures. They will possess it forever, 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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