2  For the Lord is enraged against all the nations,

and furious against all their host;

he has ^wdevoted them to destruction,¹ has given them over for slaughter.

3  Their slain shall be cast out,

and ^xthe stench of their corpses shall rise;

^ythe mountains shall flow with their blood.

4  ^zAll the host of heaven shall rot away,

and the skies roll up like a scroll.

All their host shall fall,

as leaves fall from the vine,

like leaves falling from the fig tree.

5  For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;

behold, it descends for judgment upon ^aEdom,

upon the people ^bI have devoted to destruction.

6  The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;

it is gorged with fat,

with the blood of lambs and goats,

with the fat of the kidneys of rams.

^cFor the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,

a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

8  ^gFor the Lord has a day of vengeance,

a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

9  ^hAnd the streams of Edom¹ shall be turned into pitch,

and her soil into sulfur;

her land shall become burning pitch.

10  Night and day ⁱit shall not be quenched;

^jits smoke shall go up forever.

^kFrom generation to generation it shall lie waste;

none shall pass through it forever and ever.

11  ^lBut the hawk and the porcupine² shall possess it,

the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.

^mHe shall stretch the line of ⁿconfusion³ over it,

and the plumb line of emptiness.