MLV(i)
1 Come near, you* nations, to hear. And listen, peoples. Let the earth hear and the fullness of it, the world and all things that come out from it.
2 For Jehovah has indignation against all the nations and wrath against all their host. He has utterly destroyed them. He has delivered them to the slaughter.
3 Their slain also will be cast out. And the stench of their dead bodies will come up and the mountains will be melted with their blood.
4 And all the host of heaven will be dissolved and the heavens will be rolled together as a scroll. And all their host will fade away as the leaf fades from the vine and as a fading leaf from the fig tree.
5 For my sword has drunk its fill in heaven. Behold, it will come down upon Edom and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 6 The 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 has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 7 And the wild oxen will come down with them and the bullocks with the bulls. And their land will be drunken with blood and their dust made fat with fatness. 8 For Jehovah has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9 And the streams of Edom will be turned into pitch and the dust of it into brimstone. And the land of it will become burning pitch. 10 It will not be quenched night nor day. The smoke of it will go up everlasting. From generation to generation it will lie waste. None will pass through it forever and forever. 11 But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. And the owl and the raven will dwell in it. And he will stretch over it the line of confusion and the plummet of emptiness. 12 They will call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none will be there. And all its rulers will be nothing.
13 And thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses of it. And it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. 14 And the wild beasts of the desert will meet with the wolves. And the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the screech owl will settle there and will find her a place of rest. 15 There the dart-snake will make her nest and lay and hatch and gather under her shade. Yes, there the vultures will be gathered, each one with her mate.
16 Seek out of the book of Jehovah and read. No one of these will be missing. None will want her mate. For my mouth, it has commanded and his Spirit, it has gathered them. 17 And he has cast the lot for them and his hand has divided it to them by line. They will possess it everlasting. From generation to generation they will dwell in it.
4 And all the host of heaven will be dissolved and the heavens will be rolled together as a scroll. And all their host will fade away as the leaf fades from the vine and as a fading leaf from the fig tree.
5 For my sword has drunk its fill in heaven. Behold, it will come down upon Edom and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 6 The 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 has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 7 And the wild oxen will come down with them and the bullocks with the bulls. And their land will be drunken with blood and their dust made fat with fatness. 8 For Jehovah has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9 And the streams of Edom will be turned into pitch and the dust of it into brimstone. And the land of it will become burning pitch. 10 It will not be quenched night nor day. The smoke of it will go up everlasting. From generation to generation it will lie waste. None will pass through it forever and forever. 11 But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. And the owl and the raven will dwell in it. And he will stretch over it the line of confusion and the plummet of emptiness. 12 They will call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none will be there. And all its rulers will be nothing.
13 And thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses of it. And it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches. 14 And the wild beasts of the desert will meet with the wolves. And the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the screech owl will settle there and will find her a place of rest. 15 There the dart-snake will make her nest and lay and hatch and gather under her shade. Yes, there the vultures will be gathered, each one with her mate.
16 Seek out of the book of Jehovah and read. No one of these will be missing. None will want her mate. For my mouth, it has commanded and his Spirit, it has gathered them. 17 And he has cast the lot for them and his hand has divided it to them by line. They will possess it everlasting. From generation to generation they will dwell in it.