1Come near , ye nations , to hear ; and hearken , ye peoples : let the earth hear , and the fulness thereof; the world , and all things that come forth from it . 2For Jehovah hath indignation against all the nations , and wrath against all their host : he hath utterly destroyed them , he hath delivered them to the slaughter . 3Their slain also shall be cast out , and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up ; and the mountains shall be melted with their blood . 4And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved , and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll ; and all their host shall fade away , as the leaf fadeth from off the vine , and as a fading leaf from the fig-tree.
Edom's Destruction
5For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven : behold , it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse , to judgment . 6The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood , it is made fat with fatness , with the blood of lambs and goats , with the fat of the kidneys of rams ; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah , and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 7And the wild-oxen shall come down with them , and the bullocks with the bulls : and their land shall be drunken with blood , and their dust made fat with fatness .
A Land of Desolation
8For Jehovah hath a day of vengeance , a year of recompense for the cause of Zion . 9And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch , and the dust thereof into brimstone , and the land thereof shall become burning pitch . 10It shall not be quenched night nor day ; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever ; from generation to generation it shall lie waste ; none shall pass through it for ever and ever . 11But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it ; and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion , and the plummet of emptiness . 12They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom , but none shall be there ; and all its princes shall be nothing . 13And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals , a court for ostriches . 14And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow ; yea, the night-monster shall settle there , and shall find her a place of rest . 15There shall the dart-snake make her nest , and lay , and hatch , and gather under her shade ; yea, there shall the kites be gathered , every one with her mate .
The Eternality of God's Judgment
16Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah , and read : no one of these shall be missing , none shall want her mate ; for my mouth , it hath commanded , and his Spirit , it hath gathered them . 17And he hath cast the lot for them , and his hand hath divided it unto them by line : they shall possess it for ever ; from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.