7 The oxen will be killed.And the cattle and the strong bulls will be killed.The land will be filled with their blood.The dirt will be covered with their fat.
8 The Lord has chosen a time for punishment.He has chosen a year when people must pay for the wrongs they did to Jerusalem.
9 Edom’s rivers will be like hot tar.The dirt of Edom will be like burning sulfur.The land of Edom will be like burning tar.
10 The fires will burn night and day.The smoke will rise from Edom forever.Year after year that land will be empty.No one will ever travel through that land again.
11 Birds and small animals will own that land.Owls and ravens will live there.God will make it an empty wasteland.It will have nothing left in it.
12 The important men will have no one left to rule them.The leaders will all be gone.
13 Thorns will take over the strong towers.Wild bushes will grow in the walled cities.Wild dogs will live there.Owls will live in those homes.