Come near, O nations, to hear; and hearken, O people: let the earth hear, and all that is in it; the world, and all things that come out of it.

For the Lord has indignation against all the nations, and fury against all their armies: he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter.

Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stench shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

And all the host of heaven shall rot away, and the heavens shall be rolled together like a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falls off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.

For my sword is sated in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness: with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bożra, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

And wild oxen shall come down with them, and bullocks with bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the cause of Żiyyon.

And its streams shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone, and its land shall become burning pitch.

It shall not be quenched night or day; its smoke shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

But wild birds of night shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.

They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in her fortresses: and it shall be a habitation of wild dogs, and a court for owls.

The wild creatures of the desert also meet with the jackals, the scops owl shall cry to his fellow; the tawny owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and brood under her shadow: there shall the kites also be gathered, every one with her mate.

Seek out of the book of the Lord, and read: none of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my speech has commanded, and his spirit has gathered them.

And he has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.