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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Come near, you nations, and listen; pay attention, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world, and all that comes out of it! |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The LORD is angry with all nations; his wrath is on all their armies. He will totally destroy them, he will give them over to slaughter. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Their slain will be thrown out, their dead bodies will stink; the mountains will be soaked with their blood. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4All the stars in the sky will be dissolved and the heavens rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; see, it descends in judgment on Edom, the people I have totally destroyed. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The sword of the LORD is bathed in blood, it is covered with fat-- the blood of lambs and goats, fat from the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And the wild oxen will fall with them, the bull calves and the great bulls. Their land will be drenched with blood, and the dust will be soaked with fat. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion's cause. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Edom's streams will be turned into pitch, her dust into burning sulfur; her land will become blazing pitch! |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10It will not be quenched night or day; its smoke will rise forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever pass through it again. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The desert owl and screech owl will possess it; the great owl and the raven will nest there. God will stretch out over Edom the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of desolation. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom, all her princes will vanish away. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Thorns will overrun her citadels, nettles and brambles her strongholds. She will become a haunt for jackals, a home for owls. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and wild goats will bleat to each other; there the night creatures will also lie down and find for themselves places of rest. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The owl will nest there and lay eggs, she will hatch them, and care for her young under the shadow of her wings; there also the falcons will gather, each with its mate. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Look in the scroll of the LORD and read: None of these will be missing, not one will lack her mate. For it is his mouth that has given the order, and his Spirit will gather them together. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17He allots their portions; his hand distributes them by measure. They will possess it forever and dwell there from generation to generation. |
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