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The strongest will perish, young boys and veterans too. The land will be soaked with blood, and the soil made rich with fat. For it is the day of vengeance, the year of recompense for what Edom has done to Israel. The streams of Edom will be filled with burning pitch, and the ground will be covered with fire.

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And the wild oxen(A) will fall with them,
    the bull calves and the great bulls.(B)
Their land will be drenched with blood,(C)
    and the dust will be soaked with fat.

For the Lord has a day(D) of vengeance,(E)
    a year of retribution,(F) to uphold Zion’s cause.
Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
    her dust into burning sulfur;(G)
    her land will become blazing pitch!

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