7. The people will fall like wild oxen and young bulls, and the earth will be red with blood and covered with fat.
8. This is the time when the Lord will rescue Zion and take vengeance on her enemies.
9. The rivers of Edom will turn into tar, and the soil will turn into sulphur. The whole country will burn like tar.
10. It will burn day and night, and smoke will rise from it for ever. The land will lie waste age after age, and no one will ever travel through it again.
11. Owls and ravens will take over the land. The Lord will make it a barren waste again, as it was before the creation.
12. There will be no king to rule the country, and the leaders will all be gone.
13. Thorns and thistles will grow up in all the palaces and walled towns, and jackals and owls will live in them.
14. Wild animals will roam there, and demons will call to each other. The night monster will come there looking for a place to rest.
15. Owls will build their nests, lay eggs, hatch their young, and care for them there. Vultures will gather there, one after another.