The Judgment of the Nations
1 You nations, come here and listen;
you peoples, pay attention! f
Let the earth and all that fills it hear,
the world and all that comes from it. g
2 The LORD is angry with all the nations,
furious with all their armies. h
He will set them apart for destruction, i
giving them over to slaughter.
3 Their slain will be thrown out,
and the stench of their corpses will rise; j
the mountains will flow S with their blood. k
4 All T the stars in the sky l will dissolve.
The sky will roll up like a scroll, m
and its stars will all wither
as leaves wither on the vine,
and foliage on the fig tree. n
The Judgment of Edom
5 When my sword has drunk its fill U,o in the heavens,
it will then come down on Edom p
and on the people I have set apart for destruction.
6 The LORD’S sword is covered with blood.
It drips with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams. q
For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, r
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 The wild oxen will be struck V down with them,
and young bulls with the mighty bulls.
Their land will be soaked with W blood,
and their soil will be saturated with fat.
8 For the LORD has a day of vengeance, s
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.
9 Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
her soil into sulfur; t
her land will become burning pitch.
10 It will never go out—day or night.
Its smoke will go up forever. u
It will be desolate, from generation to generation;
no one will pass through it forever and ever. v
11 Eagle owls X and herons Y will possess it,
and long-eared owls and ravens will dwell there. w
The LORD will stretch out a measuring line
and a plumb line over her
for her destruction and chaos. x
12 No nobles will be left to proclaim a king,
and all her princes will come to nothing.
13 Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns;
her fortified cities, with thistles and briers. y
She will become a dwelling for jackals,
14 The desert creatures will meet hyenas,
and one wild goat will call to another.
Indeed, the night birds will stay there
and will find a resting place.
15 Sand partridges A will make their nests there;
they will lay and hatch their eggs
and will gather their broods under their shadows.
Indeed, the birds of prey will gather there,
each with its mate. a
16 Search and read the scroll of the LORD: b
Not one of them will be missing,
none will be lacking its mate,
because he has ordered it by my B mouth,
and he will gather them by his Spirit.
17 He has cast the lot for them;
his hand allotted their portion with a measuring line.
They will possess it forever; c
they will dwell in it from generation to generation.