1Come near , ye nations , to hear ; and hearken , ye people : let the earth hear , and all that is therein ; the world , and all things that come forth of it. 2For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations , and his fury upon all their armies : he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter . 3Their slain also shall be cast out , and their stink shall come up out of their carcases , 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 fall down , as the leaf falleth off from the vine , and as a falling fig from the fig tree .
Edom's Destruction
5For my sword shall be bathed in heaven : behold, it shall come down upon Idumea , and upon the people of my curse , to judgment . 6The sword of the LORD is filled with blood , it is made fat with fatness , and with the blood of lambs and goats , with the fat of the kidneys of rams : for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah , and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea . 7And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls ; and their land shall be soaked with blood , and their dust made fat with fatness .
A Land of Desolation
8For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance , and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion . 9And the streams thereof 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 cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion , and the stones of emptiness . 12They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom , but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing . 13And thorns shall come up in her palaces , nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons , and a court for owls . 14The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island , and the satyr shall cry to his fellow ; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest . 15There shall the great owl make her nest , and lay , and hatch , and gather under her shadow : there shall the vultures also be gathered , every one with her mate .
The Eternality of God's Judgment
16Seek ye out of the book of the LORD , and read : no one of these shall fail , 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.