5. The Lord’s sword in the sky is covered with blood.It will cut through Edom.He will destroy these people as an offering to the Lord.
6. The Lord’s sword will be covered with blood.It will be covered with fat.It is the blood from lambs and goats.It is the fat from the kidneys of male sheep.This is because the Lord decided there will be a sacrifice in Bozrah.He has decided there will be much killing in Edom.
7. The oxen will be killed.And the cattle and the strong bulls will be killed.The land will be filled with their blood.The dirt will be covered with their fat.
8. The Lord has chosen a time for punishment.He has chosen a year when people must pay for the wrongs they did to Jerusalem.
9. Edom’s rivers will be like hot tar.The dirt of Edom will be like burning sulfur.The land of Edom will be like burning tar.
10. The fires will burn night and day.The smoke will rise from Edom forever.Year after year that land will be empty.No one will ever travel through that land again.