8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance, a time of paying back Edomfor its hostility against Zion.
9 Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,her soil into sulfur; her land will become burning pitch.
10 It 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.
11 The 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 lineand a plumb line over herfor her destruction and chaos.
12 No nobles will be left to proclaim a king,and all her princes will come to nothing.
13 Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns;her fortified cities, with thistles and briers. She will become a dwelling for jackals,an abode for ostriches.
14 The desert creatures will meet hyenas,and one wild goat will call to another.Indeed, the screech owl will stay thereand will find a resting place for herself.