| New Living Translation | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Come here and listen, O nations of the earth. Let the world and everything in it hear my words. | 1You nations, come here and listen; you peoples, pay attention! Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that comes from it. |
| 2For the LORD is enraged against the nations. His fury is against all their armies. He will completely destroy them, dooming them to slaughter. | 2The LORD is angry with all the nations-- furious with all their armies. He will set them apart for destruction, giving them over to slaughter. |
| 3Their dead will be left unburied, and the stench of rotting bodies will fill the land. The mountains will flow with their blood. | 3Their slain will be thrown out, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood. |
| 4The heavens above will melt away and disappear like a rolled-up scroll. The stars will fall from the sky like withered leaves from a grapevine, or shriveled figs from a fig tree. | 4All the heavenly bodies will dissolve. The skies will roll up like a scroll, and their stars will all wither as leaves wither on the vine, and foliage on the fig tree. |
| 5And when my sword has finished its work in the heavens, it will fall upon Edom, the nation I have marked for destruction. | 5When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, it will then come down on Edom and on the people I have set apart for destruction. |
| 6The sword of the LORD is drenched with blood and covered with fat— with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of rams prepared for sacrifice. Yes, the LORD will offer a sacrifice in the city of Bozrah. He will make a mighty slaughter in Edom. | 6The LORD's sword is covered with 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. |
| 7Even men as strong as wild oxen will die— the young men alongside the veterans. The land will be soaked with blood and the soil enriched with fat. | 7The wild oxen will be struck down with them, and young bulls with the mighty bulls. Their land will be soaked with blood, and their soil will be saturated with fat. |
| 8For it is the day of the LORD’s revenge, the year when Edom will be paid back for all it did to Israel. | 8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a time of paying back Edom for its hostility against Zion. |
| 9The streams of Edom will be filled with burning pitch, and the ground will be covered with fire. | 9Edom's streams will be turned into pitch, her soil into sulfur; her land will become burning pitch. |
| 10This judgment on Edom will never end; the smoke of its burning will rise forever. The land will lie deserted from generation to generation. No one will live there anymore. | 10It will never go out--day or night. Its smoke will go up forever. It will be desolate, from generation to generation; no one will pass through it forever and ever. |
| 11It will be haunted by the desert owl and the screech owl, the great owl and the raven. For God will measure that land carefully; he will measure it for chaos and destruction. | 11The desert owl and the screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and the raven will dwell there. The LORD will stretch out a measuring line and a plumb line over her for her destruction and chaos. |
| 12It will be called the Land of Nothing, and all its nobles will soon be gone. | 12No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing. |
| 13Thorns will overrun its palaces; nettles and thistles will grow in its forts. The ruins will become a haunt for jackals and a home for owls. | 13Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns; her fortified cities, with thistles and briers. She will become a dwelling for jackals, an abode for ostriches. |
| 14Desert animals will mingle there with hyenas, their howls filling the night. Wild goats will bleat at one another among the ruins, and night creatures will come there to rest. | 14The desert creatures will meet hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. Indeed, the screech owl will stay there and will find a resting place for herself. |
| 15There the owl will make her nest and lay her eggs. She will hatch her young and cover them with her wings. And the buzzards will come, each one with its mate. | 15The sand partridge will make her nest there; she will lay and hatch her eggs and will gather her brood under her shadow. Indeed, the birds of prey will gather there, each with its mate. |
| 16Search the book of the LORD, and see what he will do. Not one of these birds and animals will be missing, and none will lack a mate, for the LORD has promised this. His Spirit will make it all come true. | 16Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of them will be missing, none will be lacking its mate, because He has ordered it by my mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit. |
| 17He has surveyed and divided the land and deeded it over to those creatures. They will possess it forever, from generation to generation. | 17He has ordained a lot for them; His hand allotted their portion with a measuring line. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation. |
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