6 The Lord’s sword will be covered with blood;it will be covered with fat,with the blood from lambs and goats,with the fat from the kidneys of sheep.This is because the Lord decided there will be a sacrifice in Bozrahand much killing in Edom.
7 The oxen will be killed,and the cattle and the strong bulls.The land will be filled with their blood,and 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.Its dirt will be like burning sulfur.Its land 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,and owls and ravens will live there.God will make it an empty wasteland;it will have nothing left in it.
12 The important people will have no one left to rule them;the leaders will all be gone.