1 GLT Come near, nations, to listen, and the peoples, pay attention! The earth and its multitude must listen, the world and all its offspring. BSB BSB: Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it.
2 GLT For Yahweh has fury against all the nations and wrath against all their armies. He will completely destroy them; he will hand them over to the slaughter. BSB BSB: The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.
3 GLT And their slain will be thrown out, and their corpses will emit a stench, and the mountains will soak up their blood. BSB BSB: Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.
4 GLT And all the host of the heavens will melt, and the sky will be rolled up like a scroll; and all their hosts will fade away, as the leaf fades from the vine, and as the withered fruit from the fig tree. BSB BSB: All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.
5 GLT For my sword will have drunk its fill in heaven; behold, on Edom it descends and on the people set apart for judgment. BSB BSB: When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
6 GLT The sword of Yahweh is full of blood dripping from fat, from the blood of lambs and goats, from the fat of the kidneys of rams. For Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. BSB BSB: The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood. It drips 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 GLT And wild oxen will fall with them, and young bulls with strong ones. And their land will drink its fill of blood, and their dust fattened by fat. BSB BSB: And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.
8 GLT For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution for the cause of Zion. BSB BSB: For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9 GLT And her streams will be turned into pitch, and her dust into sulfur, and her land will become burning pitch. BSB BSB: Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch.
10 GLT Night and day it will not be extinguished; its smoke will rise forever. From generation to generation it will be a wasteland; forever and ever no one will pass through it. BSB BSB: It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.
11 GLT But the pelican and the hedgehog will occupy it. and the owl and the raven will dwell in it. And he will stretch over it the measuring line of formlessness and the plumbline of void. BSB BSB: The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.
12 GLT { For} her nobles, there is nothing to call a kingdom, and all her princes{ will be} nobody. BSB BSB: No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing.
13 GLT And thorns will rise over her palaces, nettles and thistles in her fortresses. And it will be a habitation of jackals, a place for ostriches. BSB BSB: Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
14 GLT And the wild animals will meet hyenas, and the wild goats will call upon his companion. Indeed, there night creatures will settle and find for themselves a place of rest. BSB BSB: The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.
15 GLT There the owl will nest and lay and hatch and brood in her shade. Indeed, there hawks will gather, each{ with} its mate. BSB BSB: There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate.
16 GLT Search through the scroll of Yahweh and read: not one of these will be missing; not one will lack its mate. For his mouth has commanded it, and his spirit has gathered it. BSB BSB: Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.
17 GLT And he has cast lots for them, and his hand measured for them by a cord. To eternity they will possess{ it}; from generation to generation they will live in it. BSB BSB: He has allotted their portion; His hand has distributed it by measure. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation.
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