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1 DRAW NEAR O NATIONS TO HEAR AND O PEOPLES PAY ATTENTION LET IT HEAR THE EARTH AND WHAT FILLS IT [THE] WORLD AND ALL PRODUCE<S> ITS
Judgment on the Nations
1 Come 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.
2 FOR WRATH [BELONGS] TO YAHWEH TOWARDS ALL THE NATIONS AND RAGE TOWARDS EVERY ARMY THEIR HE WILL TOTALLY DESTROY THEM HE WILL DELIVER UP THEM TO <THE> SLAUGHTER
2 The 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.
3 AND SLAIN [ONES] THEIR THEY WILL BE THROWN OUT AND CORPSES THEIR IT WILL GO UP STENCH THEIR AND THEY WILL MELT AWAY MOUNTAINS FROM BLOOD THEIR
3 Their slain will be left unburied,
and the stench of their corpses will rise;
the mountains will flow with their blood.
4 AND THEY WILL ROT AWAY ALL [THE] HOST OF THE HEAVENS AND THEY WILL BE ROLLED UP LIKE <THE> SCROLL THE HEAVENS AND ALL HOST THEIR IT WILL WITHER AS WITHERS LEAFAGE FROM A VINE AND LIKE WITHERED FRUIT FROM A FIG TREE
4 All 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 IF IT HAS DRUNK ITS FILL IN THE HEAVENS SWORD MY THERE! ON EDOM IT WILL COME DOWN AND ON [THE] PEOPLE OF TOTAL DESTRUCTION MY FOR JUDGMENT
Judgment on Edom
(Isaiah 21:11–12 )
5 When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens,
then it will come down upon Edom,
upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
6 A SWORD [BELONGS] TO YAHWEH IT IS FULL BLOOD IT HAS FATTENED ITSELF FROM FAT FROM [THE] BLOOD OF LAMBS AND GOATS FROM [THE] FAT OF [THE] KIDNEYS OF RAMS FOR A SACRIFICE [BELONGS] TO YAHWEH IN BOZRAH AND A SLAUGHTER GREAT IN [THE] LAND OF EDOM
6 The 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.
7 AND THEY WILL GO DOWN WILD OXEN WITH THEM AND YOUNG BULLS WITH MIGHTY [BULLS] AND IT WILL DRINK ITS FILL LAND THEIR FROM BLOOD AND DUST THEIR FROM FAT IT WILL BE FATTENED
7 And 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.
8 FOR A DAY OF VENGEANCE [BELONGS] TO YAHWEH A YEAR OF RETRIBUTION<S> FOR [THE] CAUSE OF ZION
8 For the LORD has a day of vengeance,
a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9 AND THEY WILL BE CHANGED TORRENTS ITS INTO PITCH AND DUST ITS INTO SULFUR AND IT WILL BECOME LAND ITS <INTO> PITCH BURNING
9 Edom’s streams will be turned to tar,
and her soil to sulfur;
her land will become a blazing pitch.
10 NIGHT AND BY DAY NOT IT WILL BE EXTINGUISHED FOR EVER IT WILL GO UP SMOKE ITS FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION IT WILL BE DESOLATE TO PERPETUITY OF PERPETUITIES THERE NOT [WILL BE ONE WHO] PASSES IN <THE> IT
10 It 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.
11 AND THEY WILL TAKE POSSESSION OF IT DESERT OWL AND HEDGEHOG AND GREAT OWL AND RAVEN THEY WILL DWELL IN IT AND HE WILL STRETCH OUT OVER IT A MEASURING-LINE OF FORMLESSNESS AND STONES OF EMPTINESS
11 The 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.
12 NOBLES ITS AND THERE NOT THERE [WILL BE THAT WHICH] A KINGSHIP PEOPLE WILL CALL AND ALL PRINCES ITS THEY WILL BE NOTHING
12 No nobles will be left to proclaim a king,
and all her princes will come to nothing.
13 AND IT WILL GROW UP FORTRESSES ITS THORNS NETTLE[S] AND THORNBUSH[ES] [WILL BE] ON FORTIFICATIONS ITS AND IT WILL BE A HABITATION OF JACKALS GRASS FOR DAUGHTERS OF AN OSTRICH
13 Her towers will be overgrown with thorns,
her fortresses with thistles and briers.
She will become a haunt for jackals,
an abode for ostriches.
14 AND THEY WILL MEET DESERT-DWELLERS <OBJ.> HYENAS AND GOAT TO COMPANION ITS IT WILL CALL SURELY THERE IT WILL REST [THE] NIGHT-CREATURE AND IT WILL FIND FOR ITSELF A RESTING PLACE
14 The 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.
15 THERE <TOWARDS> IT WILL MAKE A NEST OWL[S] AND IT LAID EGGS AND IT WILL HATCH AND IT WILL GATHER A BROOD IN SHADOW ITS SURELY THERE THEY WILL BE GATHERED BLACK KITES EACH COMPANION ITS
15 There 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 SEEK FROM ON [THE] SCROLL OF YAHWEH AND READ ONE OF THEM NOT IT WILL BE MISSING EACH COMPANION ITS NOT THEY WILL MISS FOR MOUTH MY IT IT HAS COMMANDED AND SPIRIT HIS IT IT WILL GATHER THEM
16 Search 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.
17 AND HE HE HAS CAST FOR THEM A LOT AND HAND HIS IT HAS DISTRIBUTED IT TO THEM BY THE MEASURING-LINE UNTIL PERPETUITY THEY WILL POSSESS IT TO A GENERATION AND A GENERATION THEY WILL DWELL IN IT
17 He 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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