1. Come near, you nations, and listen!Pay attention, you people!The earth and everything it contains must listen,the world and everything that lives in it.
2. For the Lord is angry at all the nationsand furious with all their armies.He will annihilate them and slaughter them.
3. Their slain will be left unburied,their corpses will stink; the hills will soak up their blood.
4. All the stars in the sky will fade away,the sky will roll up like a scroll;all its stars will wither,like a leaf withers and falls from a vineor a fig withers and falls from a tree.
5. He says, “Indeed, my sword has slaughtered heavenly powers.Look, it now descends on Edom,on the people I will annihilate in judgment.”
6. The Lord’s sword is dripping with blood,it is covered with fat;it drips with the blood of young rams and goatsand is covered with the fat of rams’ kidneys.For the Lord is holding a sacrifice in Bozrah,a bloody slaughter in the land of Edom.
7. Wild oxen will be slaughtered along with them,as well as strong bulls.Their land is drenched with blood,their soil is covered with fat.
8. For the Lord has planned a day of revenge,a time when he will repay Edom for her hostility toward Zion.