| 1 | Draw near, O nations, to hear; O peoples, give heed! Let the earth hear, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes from it. |
| 2 | For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their hordes; he has doomed them, has given them over for slaughter. |
| 3 | Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood. |
| 4 | All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall wither like a leaf withering on a vine, or fruit withering on a fig tree. |
| 5 | When my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, lo, it will descend upon Edom, upon the people I have doomed to judgment. |
| 6 | The LORD has a sword; it is sated with blood, it is gorged 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, a great slaughter in the land of Edom. |
| 7 | Wild oxen shall fall with them, and young steers with the mighty bulls. Their land shall be soaked with blood, and their soil made rich with fat. |
| 8 | For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of vindication by Zion’s cause. |
| 9 | And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into sulfur; her land shall become burning pitch. |
| 10 | Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; no one shall pass through it forever and ever. |
| 11 | But the hawk and the hedgehog shall possess it; the owl and the raven shall live in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plummet of chaos over its nobles. |
| 12 | They shall name it No Kingdom There, and all its princes shall be nothing. |
| 13 | Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches. |
| 14 | Wildcats shall meet with hyenas, goat-demons shall call to each other; there too Lilith shall repose, and find a place to rest. |
| 15 | There shall the owl nest and lay and hatch and brood in its shadow; there too the buzzards shall gather, each one with its mate. |
| 16 | Seek and read from the book of the LORD: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without its mate. For the mouth of the LORD has commanded, and his spirit has gathered them. |
| 17 | He has cast the lot for them, his hand has portioned it out to them with the line; they shall possess it forever, from generation to generation they shall live in it. |
