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1 Come near, you nations, to hear; and listen, you people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.
2 For the indignation of the LORD [Yahweh] [is] upon all nations, and [his] fury upon all their armies: he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter.
3 Their slain also will be cast out, and their stink will come up out of their carcases, and the mountains will be melted with their blood.
4 And all the host of heaven will be dissolved, and the heavens will be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host will fall down, as the leaf falls off from the vine, and as a falling [fig] from the fig tree.
5 For my sword will be bathed in heaven: behold, it will come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
6 The sword of the LORD [Yahweh] is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, [and] with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD [Yahweh] has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
7 And the unicorns will come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land will be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
8 For [it is] the day of the LORD [Yahweh]'S vengeance, [and] the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
9 And the streams of it will be turned into pitch, and the dust of it into brimstone, and the land of it will become burning pitch.
10 It will not be quenched night nor day; the smoke of it will go up for ever: from generation to generation it will lie waste; none will pass through it for ever and ever.
11 But the cormorant and the bittern will possess it; the owl also and the raven will dwell in it: and he will stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
12 They will call the nobles of it to the kingdom, but none [will be] there, and all her princes will be nothing.
13 And thorns will come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses of it: and it will be a habitation of dragons, [and] a court for owls.
14 The wild beasts of the desert will also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr will cry to his fellow; the screech owl also will rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
15 There will the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there will the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
16 Seek you out of the book of the LORD [Yahweh], and read: no one of these will fail, none will want her mate: for my mouth it has commanded, and his spirit it has gathered them.
17 And he has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them by line: they will possess it for ever, from generation to generation will they dwell therein.