1 C ome near, you nations, to hear; and hearken, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it; the world, and all things that come forth from it.

Come near, ye nations, to hear, And ye peoples, give attention, Hear doth the earth and its fulness, The world, and all its productions.

2 F or the Lord is indignant against all nations, and His wrath is against all their host. He has utterly doomed them, He has given them over to slaughter.

For wrath to Jehovah against all the nations, And fury against all their host, He hath devoted them to destruction, He hath given them to slaughter.

3 T heir slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall rise, and the mountains shall flow with their blood.

And their wounded are cast out, And their carcases cause their stench to ascend, And melted have been mountains from their blood.

4 A ll the host of the heavens shall be dissolved and crumble away, and the skies shall be rolled together like a scroll; and all their host shall drop like a faded leaf from the vine, and like a withered fig from the fig tree.

And consumed have been all the host of the heavens, And rolled together as a book have been the heavens, And all their hosts do fade, As the fading of a leaf of a vine, And as the fading one of a fig-tree.

5 B ecause My sword has been bathed and equipped in heaven, behold, it shall come down upon Edom, upon the people whom I have doomed for judgment.

For soaked in the heavens was My sword, Lo, on Edom it cometh down, On the people of My curse for judgment.

6 T he sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is gorged and greased with fatness—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.

A sword to Jehovah -- it hath been full of blood, It hath been made fat with fatness, With blood of lambs and he-goats. With fat of kidneys of rams, For a sacrifice to Jehovah in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

7 A nd the wild oxen shall fall with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be drunk and soaked with blood, and their dust made rich with fatness.

And come down have reems with them, And bullocks with bulls, And soaked hath been their land from blood, And their dust from fatness is made fat.

8 F or the Lord has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense, for the cause of Zion.

(For a day of vengeance to Jehovah, A year of recompences for Zion's strife,)

9 A nd the streams will be turned into pitch and its dust into brimstone, and its land will become burning pitch.

And turned have been her streams to pitch, And her dust to brimstone, And her land hath become burning pitch.

10 s hall not be quenched night or day; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.

By night and by day she is not quenched, To the age go up doth her smoke, From generation to generation she is waste, For ever and ever, none is passing into her.

11 B ut the pelican and the porcupine will possess it; the owl and the bittern and the raven will dwell in it. And He will stretch over it the measuring line of confusion and the plummet stones of chaos.

And possess her do pelican and hedge-hog, And owl and raven dwell in her, And He hath stretched out over her A line of vacancy, and stones of emptiness.

12 T hey shall call its nobles to proclaim the kingdom, but nothing shall be there, and all its princes shall be no more.

the kingdom her freemen they call, But there are none there, And all her princes are at an end.

13 A nd thorns shall come up in its palaces and strongholds, nettles and brambles in its fortresses; and it shall be a habitation for jackals, an abode for ostriches.

And gone up her palaces have thorns, Nettle and bramble in her fortresses, And it hath been a habitation of dragons, A court for daughters of an ostrich.

14 A nd the wild beasts of the desert will meet here with howling creatures and the wild goat will call to his fellow; the night monster will settle there and find a place of rest.

And met have Ziim with Aiim, And the goat for its companion calleth, Only there rested hath the night-owl, And hath found for herself a place of rest.

15 T here shall the arrow snake make her nest and lay her eggs and hatch them and gather her young under her shade; there shall the kites be gathered every one with its mate.

There made her nest hath the bittern, Yea, she layeth, and hath hatched, And hath gathered under her shadow, Only there gathered have been vultures, Each with its companion.

16 S eek out of the book of the Lord and read: not one of these shall fail, none shall want and lack her mate. For the mouth has commanded, and His Spirit has gathered them.

Seek out of the book of Jehovah, and read, One of these hath not been lacking, None hath missed its companion, For My mouth -- it hath commanded, And His spirit -- He hath gathered them.

17 A nd He has cast the lot for them, and His hand has portioned to by measuring line. They shall possess it forever; from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.

And He hath cast for them a lot, And His hand hath apportioned to them by line, Unto the age they possess it, To all generations they dwell in it!