1Present nations to hear, and let peoples listen; let the earth and its fullness hear, the world and all its offspring.2For wrath belongs to the LORD against all the nations, and rage against all their army; he devoted them and gave them over to slaughter.3Their slain are thrown down, and their corpses—their stench rises; the mountains melt from their blood.4All the army of the heavens rots away, and the heavens are rolled up like a scroll; all their army withers like a leaf withers from the vine and like a withering thing from the fig.5For my sword has been quenched in heaven; behold, it descends upon Edom and upon my people, a devoted thing, for justice.6The sword of the LORD is filled with blood; it is made rich with fat, with the blood of rams and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams, because it is a sacrifice to the LORD in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.7Wild oxen go down with them, and bullocks with the mighty ones; their land is quenched from blood, and their dust is made rich from fat.8For the day of vengeance belongs to the LORD, the year of recompense for the strife of Zion.9Its torrents are turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone; its land becomes burning pitch.10Night and day it is not quenched; its smoke rises forever; from generation to generation it lies desolate to endless perpetuity, with nothing passing through it.11Pelican and porcupine and owl and raven possess it and dwell in it; he stretches over it a line of formlessness and stones of void.12Its nobles—there is nothing there—call it kingship, and all its rulers come to an end.13Its citadels grow up with thorn, nettle, and thistle in its fortifications; it becomes a pasture for jackals, an abode for the daughters of the ostrich.14Wild beasts meet wild beasts, and the satyr calls to its neighbor; surely the night-creature rests there and finds a resting place for itself.15There the arrow snake makes its nest, escapes, breaks open, and gathers in its shadow; surely hawks are gathered there, each with its neighbor.16Seek from the scroll of the LORD and read aloud; not one of them is lacking; no woman is missing her neighbor; they have not been listed, for my mouth commanded, and his spirit gathered them.17He cast the lot for them, and his hand divided the land to them by the line; they will possess it forever; from generation to generation they will dwell in it.