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The Lord says,
‘My sword has finished its work in the skies.
    Now it will come to punish Edom.
Those are the people that I have decided to destroy.’
The Lord's sword has blood all over it!
    It is the blood of young sheep and goats.
It has the fat of meat on it.
    It is the fat from sheep's kidneys.
Yes! The Lord is killing animals for a sacrifice in Bozrah.[a]
    He will kill many people in Edom.
He will kill their wild oxen
    and their young bulls.[b]
Blood will pour over Edom's land.
    Fat will feed their soil.

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Footnotes

  1. 34:6 Bozrah was an important town in Edom, to the east of Judah.
  2. 34:7 The oxen and the bulls may be a way of talking about Edom's leaders and strong young men.