Dual PanelGod Will Punish His Enemies
1All you nations, come near and listen! Listen, all you people. The earth and everyone on it should listen to these things. Everything in this world should hear this.
2The LORD is angry with all the nations and their armies. He will destroy them completely. He will put them all to death.
3Those who are killed will be thrown outside. The smell will rise from their bodies. Their blood will flow down the mountains.
4Every star in the sky will disappear, and the skies will be rolled shut like a scroll. Everything in the sky will wither and fall like dead leaves from the vine, like figs dried up on the tree.
5The Lord says, “When my sword is finished with everything in the sky, it will come down on Edom. I have judged them guilty, and they must die.”
6The LORD has decided on a time for sacrifice in Bozrah, a time for killing in all of Edom. So the sword of the LORD is covered with blood and fat— blood from the “goats” and fat from the kidneys of the “rams.”
7So the rams, the cattle, and even the strong bulls will be killed. The land will be wet with their blood. The soil will be soaked with their fat.
8Yes, the LORD has chosen a time for punishment. He has chosen a year when people must pay for the wrong they did to Zion.
9Edom’s rivers will be like hot tar. Edom’s ground will be like burning sulfur.
10The fires will burn day and night— no one will stop the fire. The smoke will rise from Edom forever. The land will be destroyed forever and ever. No one will ever travel through that land again.
11Birds and small animals will own that land. It will be a home for owls and ravens. God will leave that land in ruins. People will call it “the empty desert.”
12The freemen and leaders will all be gone, and there will be nothing left for them to rule.
13Thorns and wild bushes will grow in all the beautiful homes there. Wild dogs and owls will live in them. Wild animals will make their homes there. Big birds will live in the grasses that grow there.
14Wild cats will live there with hyenas. Wild goats will call to their friends. Night animals will spend some time there and find a place to rest.
15Snakes will make their homes there and lay their eggs. The eggs will open, and small snakes will crawl from the dark places. Birds that eat dead things will gather there like women visiting their friends.
16Look in the LORD'S scroll and read what it says: Not one of these will be missing. Not one will be without its mate. God said he would make this happen, so his Spirit will bring them together.
17God decided what he should do with them, and then he chose a place for them. He drew a line and showed them their land. So they will own that land forever. They will live there year after year.