Chapter 34
1 Come near , you nations , to hear ! Listen , you peoples . Let the earth and all it contains hear , the world , and everything that comes from it .
2 For the LORD is enraged against all the nations , and angry with all their armies . He has utterly destroyed them . He has given them over for slaughter .
3 Their slain will also be cast out , and the stench of their dead bodies will come up . The mountains will melt in their blood .
4 All of the army of the sky will be dissolved . The sky will be rolled up like a scroll , and all its armies will fade away , as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree .
5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky . Behold , it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse , for judgement.
6 The LORD ’s sword is filled with blood . It is covered 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 , and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 The wild oxen will come down with them , and the young bulls with the mighty bulls ; and their land will be drunken with blood , and their dust made greasy with fat .
8 For the LORD has a day of vengeance , a year of recompense for the cause of Zion .
9 Its streams will be turned into pitch , its dust into sulphur, and its land will become burning pitch .
10 It won’t be quenched night or day . Its smoke will go up forever . From generation to generation , it will lie waste . No one will pass through it forever and ever .
11 But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it . The owl and the raven will dwell in it . He will stretch the line of confusion over it , and the plumb line of emptiness .
12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom , but none shall be there ; and all its princes shall be nothing .
13 Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses ; and it will be a habitation of jackals , a court for ostriches .
14 The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and the wild goat will cry to his fellow . Yes, the night creature shall settle there , and shall find herself a place of rest .
15 The arrow snake will make her nest there , and lay , hatch , and gather under her shade . Yes, the kites will be gathered there , every one with her mate .
16 Search in the book of the LORD , and read : not one of these will be missing . None will lack her mate . For my mouth has commanded , and his Spirit has gathered them .
17 He has cast the lot for them , and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line . They shall possess it forever . From generation to generation they will dwell in it .