| New King James Version | Berean Study Bible |
| 1Come near, you nations, to hear; And heed, you people! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, The world and all things that come forth from it. | 1Come near, O nations, to listen; pay attention, O peoples. Let the earth hear, and all that fills it, the world and all that springs from it. |
| 2For the indignation of the LORD is against all nations, And His fury against all their armies; He has utterly destroyed them, He has given them over to the slaughter. | 2The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter. |
| 3Also their slain shall be thrown out; Their stench shall rise from their corpses, And the mountains shall be melted with their blood. | 3Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood. |
| 4All the host of heaven shall be dissolved, And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll; All their host shall fall down As the leaf falls from the vine, And as fruit falling from a fig tree. | 4All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree. |
| 5“For My sword shall be bathed in heaven; Indeed it shall come down on Edom, And on the people of My curse, for judgment. | 5When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction. |
| 6The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, It is made overflowing with fatness, With the blood of lambs and goats, With the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom. | 6The sword of the LORD is bathed in 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. |
| 7The wild oxen shall come down with them, And the young bulls with the mighty bulls; Their land shall be soaked with blood, And their dust saturated with fatness.” | 7And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat. |
| 8For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, The year of recompense for the cause of Zion. | 8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. |
| 9Its streams shall be turned into pitch, And its dust into brimstone; Its land shall become burning pitch. | 9Edom’s streams will be turned to tar, and her soil to sulfur; her land will become a blazing pitch. |
| 10It shall not be quenched night or day; Its smoke shall ascend forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; No one shall pass through it forever and ever. | 10It will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it. |
| 11But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it, Also the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And He shall stretch out over it The line of confusion and the stones of emptiness. | 11The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction. |
| 12They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, But none shall be there, and all its princes shall be nothing. | 12No nobles will be left to proclaim a king, and all her princes will come to nothing. |
| 13And thorns shall come up in its palaces, Nettles and brambles in its fortresses; It shall be a habitation of jackals, A courtyard for ostriches. | 13Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches. |
| 14The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the jackals, And the wild goat shall bleat to its companion; Also the night creature shall rest there, And find for herself a place of rest. | 14The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose. |
| 15There the arrow snake shall make her nest and lay eggs And hatch, and gather them under her shadow; There also shall the hawks be gathered, Every one with her mate. | 15There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate. |
| 16“Search from the book of the LORD, and read: Not one of these shall fail; Not one shall lack her mate. For My mouth has commanded it, and His Spirit has gathered them. | 16Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit. |
| 17He has cast the lot for them, And His hand has divided it among them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever; From generation to generation they shall dwell in it.” | 17He has allotted their portion; His hand has distributed it by measure. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation. |
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