341 Draw near , O nations , to hear ; and listen , O peoples ! Let the earth and all it contains hear , and the world and all that springs from it. 2 For the Lord'S indignation is against all the nations , And His wrath against all their armies ; He has utterly destroyed them, He has given them over to slaughter . 3 So their slain will be thrown out, And their corpses will give off their stench , And the mountains will be drenched with their blood . 4 And all the host of heaven will wear away , And the sky 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 My sword is satiated in heaven , Behold it shall descend for judgment upon Edom And upon the people whom I have devoted to destruction . 6 The sword of the Lord 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 the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah And a great slaughter in the land of Edom . 7 Wild oxen will also fall with them And young bulls with strong ones ; Thus their land will be soaked with blood , And their dust become greasy with fat . 8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance , A year of recompense for the cause of Zion .
9 Its streams will be turned into pitch , And its loose earth into brimstone , And its land will become burning pitch . 10 It will not be quenched night or day ; Its smoke will go up forever . From generation to generation it will be desolate ; None will pass through it forever and ever . 11 But pelican and hedgehog will possess it, And owl and raven will dwell in it; And He will stretch over it the line of desolation And the plumb line of emptiness . 12 Its nobles -there is no one there Whom they may proclaim king - And all its princes will be nothing . 13 Thorns will come up in its fortified towers , Nettles and thistles in its fortified cities ; It will also be a haunt of jackals And an abode of ostriches . 14 The desert creatures will meet with the wolves , The hairy goat also will cry to its kind ; Yes , the night monster will settle there And will find herself a resting place . 15 The tree snake will make its nest and lay eggs there , And it will hatch and gather them under its protection . Yes , the hawks will be gathered there , Every one with its kind . 16 Seek from the book of the Lord , and read : Not one of these will be missing ; None e will lack its mate . For His mouth has commanded , And His Spirit has gathered them. 17 He has cast the lot for them, And His hand has divided it to them by line . They shall possess it forever e ; From generation to generation they will dwell in it.
