4 Each star will disappear—the sky will roll uplike a scroll.Everything in the skywill dry up and wiltlike leaves on a vineor fruit on a tree.
5 After the sword of the Lordhas done what it wantsto the skies above,it will come down on Edom,the nation that the Lordhas doomed for destruction.
6 The sword of the Lordis covered with bloodfrom lambs and goats,together with fatfrom kidneys of rams.This is because the Lordwill slaughter many peopleand make a sacrifice of themin the city of Bozrahand everywhere elsein Edom.
7 Edom's leaders are wild oxen.They are powerful bulls,but they will diewith the others.Their country will be soakedwith their blood,and its soil made fertilewith their fat.
8 The Lord has chosenthe year and the day,when he will take revengeand come to Zion's defence.
9 Edom's streams will turn into tarand its soil into sulphur—then the whole countrywill go up in flames.
10 It will burn night and dayand never stop smoking.Edom will be a desert,generation after generation;no one will ever travelthrough that land.