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The Judgement of Edom

When my sword has drunk its fill[a](A) in the heavens,
it will then come down on Edom(B)
and on the people I have set apart for destruction.
The Lord’s sword is covered with blood.
It drips with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.(C)
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,(D)
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
The wild oxen will be struck[b] down with them,
and young bulls with the mighty bulls.
Their land will be soaked with[c] blood,
and their soil will be saturated with fat.

For the Lord has a day of vengeance,(E)
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.
Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
her soil into sulphur;(F)
her land will become burning pitch.
10 It will never go out – day or night.
Its smoke will go up for ever.(G)
It will be desolate, from generation to generation;
no one will pass through it for ever and ever.(H)
11 Eagle owls[d] and herons[e] will possess it,
and long-eared owls and ravens will dwell there.(I)
The Lord will stretch out a measuring line
and a plumb line(J) over her
for her destruction and chaos.(K)

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Footnotes

  1. 34:5 DSS read sword will appear
  2. 34:7 Or will go
  3. 34:7 Or will drink its fill of
  4. 34:11 Or Pelicans
  5. 34:11 Or hedgehogs