⁷ Remember, Lord, what the Edomites said
that day^[a] at Jerusalem:
“Destroy it! Destroy it
down to its foundations!”^(A)

One calls to me from Seir,^(C)
“Watchman, what is left of the night?
Watchman, what is left of the night?”
¹² The watchman said,
“Morning has come, and also night.
If you want to ask, ask!
Come back again.”

⁸ For the Lord has a day of vengeance,^(N)
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.
⁹ Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
her soil into sulfur;^(O)
her land will become burning pitch.
¹⁰ It will never go out—day or night.
Its smoke will go up forever.^(P)
It will be desolate, from generation to generation;
no one will pass through it forever and ever.^(Q)
11 The desert owl^[f] and the screech owl^[g] will possess it,
and the great owl and the raven will dwell there.^(R)
The Lord will stretch out a measuring line
and a plumb line over her
for her destruction and chaos.^(S)
12 No nobles will be left to proclaim a king,
and all her princes will come to nothing.
¹³ Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns;
her fortified cities, with thistles and briers.^(T)
She will become a dwelling for jackals,
an abode^[h] for ostriches.^(U)
14 The desert creatures will meet hyenas,
and one wild goat will call to another.
Indeed, the screech owl will stay there
and will find a resting place for herself.
¹⁵ The sand partridge^[i] will make her nest there;
she will lay and hatch her eggs
and will gather her brood under her shadow.
Indeed, the birds of prey will gather there,
each with its mate.^(V)
16 Search and read the scroll of the Lord:^(W)
Not one of them will be missing,
none will be lacking its mate,
because He has ordered it by my^[j] mouth,
and He will gather them by His Spirit.
¹⁷ He has ordained a lot for them;
His hand allotted their portion with a measuring line.
They will possess it forever;^(X)
they will dwell in it from generation to generation.

It is I, proclaiming vindication,^[b]
powerful to save.

² Why are Your clothes red,
and Your garments like one who treads a winepress?^(B)

³ I trampled the winepress alone,
and no one from the nations was with Me.
I trampled them in My anger
and ground them underfoot in My fury;
their blood spattered My garments,
and all My clothes were stained.
⁴ For I planned the day of vengeance,^[c](C)
and the year of My redemption^[d] came.
⁵ I looked, but there was no one to help,^(D)
and I was amazed that no one assisted;
so My arm accomplished victory for Me,
and My wrath assisted Me.
⁶ I crushed nations in My anger;
I made them drunk with My wrath^(E)
and poured out their blood on the ground.^(F)

I will not relent from punishing Edom^(A)
for three crimes, even four,
because he pursued his brother with the sword.^(B)
He stifled his compassion,
his anger tore at them^(C) continually,
and he harbored his rage incessantly.
¹² Therefore, I will send fire against Teman,^(D)
and it will consume the citadels of Bozrah.