CHAPTER 34
Come 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.
The LORD
is angry
with
all
the nations
and furious
with all their armies.
He will set them apart for destruction;
He will give them over
to slaughter.
Their slain
will be left unburied,
and the stench
of their corpses
will rise;
the mountains
will flow
with their blood.
All
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
on the vine,
and foliage
on the fig tree.
When
My sword
has drunk its fill
in the heavens,
then
it will come down
upon
Edom,
on
the people
I have set apart
for destruction.
The 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.
And 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.
It will not
be quenched—
day
or night.
Its smoke
will ascend
forever.
From generation
to generation
it will lie desolate;
no one
will ever pass
through it
again.
The 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.
Her towers
will be overgrown
with thorns,
her fortresses
with thistles
and briers.
She will become
a haunt
for jackals,
an abode
for ostriches.
The desert creatures
will meet
with hyenas,
and one wild goat
will call
to
another.
There
the nocturnal creature
will settle
and find
her
place of repose.
There
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.
Search
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.
He
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.