34 Come near, you nations, to hear; and listen, O peoples!
Let the earth and all that is in it hear, and the world and all that comes forth from it.
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For the Lord is angry at all the nations,
And His wrath is against all their armies;
He has ^[a]utterly doomed them,
He has given them over to slaughter.
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So their slain will be thrown out,
And the stench of their corpses will rise,
And the mountains will flow with their blood.
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All the host of heaven will be dissolved,
And the skies will be rolled up like a scroll;
All their hosts [the stars and the planets] will also wither away
As a leaf withers from the vine,
And as a fig withers from the fig tree.^(A)
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For My sword is satiated [with blood] in heaven;
Indeed, it will come down for judgment on Edom
And on the people whom I have doomed for destruction.^(B)
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The sword of the Lord is filled with blood [from sacrifices],
It drips with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,
With the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah (Edom’s capital city)
And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
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Wild oxen will also fall with them
And the young bulls with the strong bulls;
And their land will be soaked with blood,
And their dust made greasy with fat.
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For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
A year of retribution for the cause of Zion.
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The streams [of Edom] will be turned into pitch,
And its dust into brimstone,
And its land will become burning pitch.
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The burning will not be quenched night or day;
Its smoke will go up forever.
From generation to generation it will lie in ruins;
No one will ever again pass through it.^(C)
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But the pelican and the porcupine will take possession of it;
The owl and the raven will dwell in it.
And He will stretch over it (Edom) the measuring line of desolation
And the plumb line of emptiness.
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Its nobles—there is no one there
Whom they may proclaim king—
And all its princes will be nothing.
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Thorns will come up in its fortified palaces,
Nettles and brambles in its fortified cities;
It will be a haunt for jackals,
An abode for ostriches.
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The creatures of the desert will encounter jackals
And the ^[b]hairy goat will call to its kind;
Indeed, ^[c]Lilith (night demon) will settle there
And find herself a place of rest.
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There the arrow snake will make her nest and lay her eggs,
And hatch them and gather her young under her protection;
Indeed, the birds of prey will be gathered there [to breed],
Every one with its own kind.