Dual Panel1COME NEAR, you nations, to hear; and hearken, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it; the world, and all things that come forth from it.
2For the Lord is indignant against all nations, and His wrath is against all their host. He has utterly doomed them, He has given them over to slaughter.
3Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall rise, and the mountains shall flow with their blood.
4All the host of the heavens shall be dissolved {and} crumble away, and the skies shall be rolled together like a scroll; and all their host [the stars and the planets] shall drop like a faded leaf from the vine, and like a withered fig from the fig tree.
5Because My sword has been bathed {and} equipped in heaven, behold, it shall come down upon Edom [the descendants of Esau], upon the people whom I have doomed for judgment.
6The sword of the Lord is filled with blood [of sacrifices], it is gorged {and} greased with fatness--with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah [capital of Edom] and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7And the wild oxen shall fall with them, and the [young] bullocks with the [old and mighty] bulls; and their land shall be drunk {and} soaked with blood, and their dust made rich with fatness.
8For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense, for the cause of Zion.
9And the streams [of Edom] will be turned into pitch and its dust into brimstone, and its land will become burning pitch.
10[The burning of Edom] shall not be quenched night or day; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.
11But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it; the owl {and} the bittern and the raven will dwell in it. And He will stretch over it [Edom] the measuring line of confusion and the plummet stones of chaos [over its nobles].
12They shall call its nobles to proclaim the kingdom, but nothing shall be there, and all its princes shall be no more.
13And thorns shall come up in its palaces {and} strongholds, nettles and brambles in its fortresses; and it shall be a habitation for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
14And the wild beasts of the desert will meet here with howling creatures [wolves and hyenas] and the [shaggy] wild goat will call to his fellow; the night monster will settle there and find a place of rest.
15There shall the arrow snake make her nest and lay her eggs and hatch them and gather her young under her shade; there shall the kites be gathered [also to breed] every one with its mate.
16Seek out of the book of the Lord and read: not one of these [details of prophecy] shall fail, none shall want {and} lack her mate [in fulfillment]. For the mouth [of the Lord] has commanded, and His Spirit has gathered them.
17And He has cast the lot for them, and His hand has portioned [Edom] to [the wild beasts] by measuring line. They shall possess it forever; from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.