The Lord Will Judge Edom
34:1 Come near, you nations, and listen!
Pay attention, you people!
The earth and everything it contains must listen,
the world and everything that lives in it.1
34:2 For the LORD is angry at all the nations,
and furious with all their armies.
He will annihilate them and slaughter them.
34:3 Their slain will be unburied,2
their corpses will stink;3
the hills will soak up their blood.4
34:4 All the stars in the sky will fade away,5
the sky will roll up like a scroll,
all its stars will wither,
like a leaf withers and falls from a vine,
or a fig withers and falls from a tree.6
34:5 He says,7
“Indeed my sword has slaughtered heavenly powers.8
Look, it now descends on Edom,9
on the people I will annihilate in judgment.”
34:6 The LORD’s sword is dripping with blood,
it is covered10
with suet;
it drips11
with the blood of young rams and goats,
and is covered12
with the suet of rams’ kidneys.
For the LORD is holding a sacrifice13
in Bozrah,14
a bloody15
slaughter in the land of Edom.
34:7 Wild oxen will be slaughtered16
along with them,
as well as strong bulls.17
Their land is drenched with blood,
their soil is covered with suet.
34:8 For the LORD has planned a day of revenge,18
a time when he will repay Edom for her hostility toward Zion.19
34:9 Her20
streams will be turned into pitch,
and her soil into brimstone;
her land will become burning pitch.
34:10 Night and day it will burn,21
its smoke will ascend continually.
Generation after generation it will be a wasteland,
and no one will ever pass through it again.
34:11 Owls and wild animals22
will live there,23
all kinds of wild birds24
will settle in it.
He 25
will stretch out over her
the measuring line of ruin,
and the plumb line26
of destruction.27
34:12 Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdom,
and all her officials will disappear.28
34:13 Her fortresses will be overgrown with thorns,
thickets and weeds will grow29
in her fortified cities.
Jackals will settle there,
ostriches will live there.30
34:14 Wild animals and wild dogs will congregate
there,31
wild goats will bleat to one another.32
Yes, nocturnal animals33
will rest there,
and make for themselves a nest.34
34:15 Owls35
will make nests and lay eggs36
there,
they will hatch them and protect them.37
Yes, hawks38
will gather there,
each with its mate.
34:16 Carefully read the scroll of the LORD!39
Not one of these creatures will be missing,40
none will lack a mate.41
For the LORD has issued the decree,42
and his personal spirit gathers them.43
34:17 He assigns them their allotment,44
he measures out their assigned place.45
They will live there46
permanently,
they will settle in it through successive generations.