Dual PanelEdom and Israel
1APPROACH, you nations, and listen; attend, you peoples; let the earth listen and everything in it, the world and all that it yields;
2for the LORD's anger is against all the nations and his wrath against all their hordes; he gives them over to slaughter and destruction.
3Their slain will be flung out, stench will rise from their corpses, and the mountains will run with their blood.
4All the host of heaven will crumble into nothing, the heavens will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their host fade away, as the foliage withers from the vine and the ripened fruit from the fig tree.
5For my sword appears in heaven. See how it descends in judgement on Edom, on a people whom I have doomed to destruction.
6The LORD has a sword sated with blood, gorged with fat, the fat of rams' kidneys, and with the blood of lambs and goats; for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in Edom.
7Wild oxen will go down also, bull and bison together, and their land will drink deep of blood and their soil be enriched with fat.
8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, the champion of Zion has a time of retribution.
9Edom's torrents will be turned to pitch and its soil to brimstone; the land will become blazing pitch,
10never to be quenched night or day; smoke will rise from it for ever. Age after age it will lie waste, and no one will ever again pass through it.
11Horned owl and bustard will make it their home; it will be the haunt of screech-owl and raven. The LORD has stretched over it a measuring line of chaos, and its boundaries will be a jumble of stones.
12No king will be acclaimed there, and all its princes will come to naught.
13Its palaces will be overgrown with thorns; nettles and briars will cover its strongholds. It will be the lair of wolves, the haunt of desert-owls.
14Marmots will live alongside jackals, and he-goats will congregate there. There too the nightjar will return to rest and find herself a place for repose;
15there the sand-partridge will make her nest, lay her eggs and hatch them, and gather her brood under her wings; there will the kites gather, each with its mate.
16Consult the book of the LORD and read it: not one of these will be missing, not one will lack its mate, for with his own mouth he has ordered it and by his spirit he has brought them together.
17He it is who has allotted each its place, and his hand has measured out their portions; they will occupy it for all time, and each succeeding generation will dwell there.