¹Come near, nations, to hear; peoples, pay attention. Let the land hear, and its fullness, the world and all its offspring.

²For wrath is Yahweh's against all the nations, and rage against all their host; he has put them under the ban, he has given them to the slaughter.

³Their slain will be thrown out, and their corpses; their stench will go up, and the mountains will melt from their blood.

⁴All the host of the skies will rot away, and the skies will be rolled up like a scroll; all their host will wither, as a leaf withers from the vine, and like what withers from the fig tree.

⁵For my sword has been drenched in the skies; look, it will come down on Edom, and on the people I have devoted to destruction, for justice.

⁶A sword is Yahweh's, full of blood; it has fattened itself on fat, on the blood of lambs and goats, on the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

⁷And wild oxen will go down with them, and young bulls with the mighty ones; their land will drink its fill of blood, and their dust will be fattened with fat.

⁸For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of requitals for Zion's dispute.

⁹Its wadis will be turned into pitch, and its dust into sulfur; its land will become burning pitch.

¹⁰Night and day it will not go out; its smoke will go up forever; from generation to generation it will lie desolate; for perpetuity upon perpetuity, no one will pass through it.

¹¹Pelican and porcupine will possess it; heron and raven will dwell in it. He will stretch over it the line of formlessness and the stones of emptiness.

¹²Her nobles—none are there to call a kingdom—and all her officials will be nothing.

¹³And thorns will spring up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in her fortifications; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a haunt for the daughters of the ostrich.

¹⁴Desert-dwellers will meet howlers, and the goat will call to its companion; surely there the night-hag will rest, and find for herself a resting place.

¹⁵There the arrow-snake will nest, lay eggs, split them open, and gather her brood in her shadow; surely there the falcons will be gathered, each with her companion.

¹⁶Seek from the scroll of Yahweh and read: not one of these is missing; no one has missed her companion. For my mouth, it has commanded, and his breath, it has gathered them.

¹⁷And he himself has cast the lot for them, and his hand has apportioned it to them by the line; forever they will possess it, from generation to generation they will dwell in it.