¹Approach, you nations, to hear,

And listen, you peoples.

Let the earth and its fulness hear

– The world and all its offspring.

²For the Lord is angry with all the nations,

And is wrathful over all their armies.

He will obliterate them;

He will deliver them to slaughter.

³And their casualties will be dumped,

And from their corpses their stench will come,

And mountains will melt

From their blood.

Like the falling off of foliage from a vine,

Or like a fig falling from a fig tree.

⁵For my sword will be satiated in the heavens,

And behold, it will descend on Edom

And on a people I have condemned in judgment.

⁶The Lord's sword is full of blood;

It is besmeared with fat

From the blood of fatted lambs and he-goats

And with the fat from the kidneys of rams,

For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,

And great slaughter in the land of Edom.

⁷And the buffaloes will be brought down with them,

And oxen with strong bulls,

And their land will be saturated with blood,

And their dust will be made greasy with fat.

⁸For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance

– The year of retribution –

For the controversy over Zion.

⁹And its streams will be turned into pitch,

And its dust into sulphur,

And its land will become burning pitch.

¹⁰Night and day it will not be extinguished;

Its smoke will rise up age-abidingly.

From generation to generation it will be desolate;

In all perpetuity

No-one will pass through it.

¹²As for their nobles,

There will be nothing there

Which they can proclaim as a kingdom,

And all its officials

Will be no more.

¹³And thorns will come up in its palaces,

And nettles and thistles in its fortifications,

And it will be an abode of jackals,

And pasture for ostriches.

¹⁴And the desert animals will meet the jackals,

And the goat will call to its fellow.

Indeed the screech-owl will settle quietly there

And will find itself a resting place.

¹⁵The eagle-owl will make its nest there

And lay its eggs and hatch them

And brood over them in its shadow.

Vultures will also gather there

– The female and her mate.

¹⁶Seek in the book of the Lord,

And read.

Not one of these females will be left behind.

No female will lack its mate,

For it is my mouth which has commanded it,

And it is his spirit which will gather them.

¹⁷And he has cast their lot,

And his hand has allocated them an area marked off by a measuring line.

They will inherit it age-abidingly;

From generation to generation

They will dwell in it.

Reference(s) in Chapter 34: v.4 ↔ Matthew 24:29, Mark 13:25, Hebrews 1:12, Revelation 6:13-14 ● v.10 ↔ Revelation 14:11, Revelation 19:3 ● v.11 ↔ Revelation 18:2.