Yahweh’s Wrath Against the Nations
Draw near, aO nations, to hear; and pay attention, O peoples!
bLet the earth hear, as well as its fullness, the world and all that springs from it.
2 For the aindignation of Yahweh is against all the nations,
And His wrath against all their hosts;
He has bdevoted them to destruction;
He has given them over to cslaughter.
3 So their slain will be acast out,
And their corpses will give off their bstench,
And the mountains will be drenched with their cblood.
4 And aall the host of heaven will rot away,
And the bsky will be rolled up like a scroll;
All their hosts will also wither away
As a leaf withers from the vine,
Or as one withers from the fig tree.
5 For aMy sword is satiated in heaven;
Behold, it shall descend for judgment upon bEdom
And upon the people whom I have cdevoted to destruction.
6 The sword of Yahweh is filled with blood;
It is sated with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,
With the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For Yahweh has a sacrifice in aBozrah
And a great slaughter in the land of bEdom.
7 aAnd wild oxen will also fall with them,
And byoung bulls with strong ones;
Thus their land will be csoaked with blood,
And their dust become greasy with fat.
8 For Yahweh has a day of avengeance,
A year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9 And its streams will be turned into pitch,
And its dust into abrimstone,
And its land will become burning pitch.
10 It will anot be quenched night or day;
Its bsmoke will go up forever.
From cgeneration to generation it will be laid waste;
dNone will pass through it forever and ever.
11 But apelican and hedgehog will possess it,
And owl and raven will dwell in it;
And He will stretch over it the bline of utter formlessness
And the plumb line of utter void.
12 Its nobles—there is ano one there
Whom they may proclaim king—
And all its princes will be bnon‑existent.
13 And thorns will come up in its afortified towers,
Weeds and thistles in its fortified cities;
It will also be a haunt of bjackals
And an abode of ostriches.
14 And the desert acreatures will meet with the wolves;
The ahairy goat also will cry to its kind;
Surely, the night creature will obtain relief there
And will find itself a resting place.
15 The owl will make its nest and find its escape there,
And it will hatch its eggs and gather them in its shade.
Surely, athe falcons will be gathered there,
Every one with its kind.
16 Seek from the abook of Yahweh, and read:
Not one of these will be missing;
None will lack its mate.
For bHis mouth has commanded,
And His Spirit has gathered them.
17 He has cast the alot for them,
And His hand has divided it to them by bline.
They shall possess it forever;
From cgeneration to generation they will dwell in it.