| NET Bible | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1Come 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. | 1You nations, come here and listen; you peoples, pay attention! Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that comes from it. |
| 2For the LORD is angry at all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will annihilate them and slaughter them. | 2The LORD is angry with all the nations-- furious with all their armies. He will set them apart for destruction, giving them over to slaughter. |
| 3Their slain will be left unburied, their corpses will stink; the hills will soak up their blood. | 3Their slain will be thrown out, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood. |
| 4All 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 vine or a fig withers and falls from a tree. | 4All the heavenly bodies will dissolve. The skies will roll up like a scroll, and their stars will all wither as leaves wither on the vine, and foliage on the fig tree. |
| 5He says, "Indeed, my sword has slaughtered heavenly powers. Look, it now descends on Edom, on the people I will annihilate in judgment." | 5When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, it will then come down on Edom and on the people I have set apart for destruction. |
| 6The LORD's sword is dripping with blood, it is covered with fat; it drips with the blood of young rams and goats and 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. | 6The LORD's sword is covered with blood. It drips with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom. |
| 7Wild oxen will be slaughtered along with them, as well as strong bulls. Their land is drenched with blood, their soil is covered with fat. | 7The wild oxen will be struck down with them, and young bulls with the mighty bulls. Their land will be soaked with blood, and their soil will be saturated with fat. |
| 8For the LORD has planned a day of revenge, a time when he will repay Edom for her hostility toward Zion. | 8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a time of paying back Edom for its hostility against Zion. |
| 9Edom's streams will be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land will become burning pitch. | 9Edom's streams will be turned into pitch, her soil into sulfur; her land will become burning pitch. |
| 10Night and day it will burn; its smoke will ascend continually. Generation after generation it will be a wasteland and no one will ever pass through it again. | 10It will never go out--day or night. Its smoke will go up forever. It will be desolate, from generation to generation; no one will pass through it forever and ever. |
| 11Owls and wild animals will live there, all kinds of wild birds will settle in it. The LORD will stretch out over her the measuring line of ruin and the plumb line of destruction. | 11The desert owl and the screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and the raven will dwell there. The LORD will stretch out a measuring line and a plumb line over her for her destruction and chaos. |
| 12Her nobles will have nothing left to call a kingdom and all her officials will disappear. | 12No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing. |
| 13Her fortresses will be overgrown with thorns; thickets and weeds will grow in her fortified cities. Jackals will settle there; ostriches will live there. | 13Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns; her fortified cities, with thistles and briers. She will become a dwelling for jackals, an abode for ostriches. |
| 14Wild animals and wild dogs will congregate there; wild goats will bleat to one another. Yes, nocturnal animals will rest there and make for themselves a nest. | 14The desert creatures will meet hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. Indeed, the screech owl will stay there and will find a resting place for herself. |
| 15Owls will make nests and lay eggs there; they will hatch them and protect them. Yes, hawks will gather there, each with its mate. | 15The sand partridge will make her nest there; she will lay and hatch her eggs and will gather her brood under her shadow. Indeed, the birds of prey will gather there, each with its mate. |
| 16Carefully read the scroll of the LORD! Not one of these creatures will be missing, none will lack a mate. For the LORD has issued the decree, and his own spirit gathers them. | 16Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of them will be missing, none will be lacking its mate, because He has ordered it by my mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit. |
| 17He assigns them their allotment; he measures out their assigned place. They will live there permanently; they will settle in it through successive generations. | 17He has ordained a lot for them; His hand allotted their portion with a measuring line. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation. |
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