5 He says, “Indeed, my sword has slaughtered heavenly powers.Look, it now descends on Edom,on the people I will annihilate in judgment.”
6 The Lord’s sword is dripping with blood,it is covered with fat;it drips with the blood of young rams and goatsand is covered with the fat of rams’ kidneys.For the Lord is holding a sacrifice in Bozrah,a bloody slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 Wild oxen will be slaughtered along with them,as well as strong bulls.Their land is drenched with blood,their soil is covered with fat.
8 For the Lord has planned a day of revenge,a time when he will repay Edom for her hostility toward Zion.
9 Edom’s streams will be turned into pitchand her soil into brimstone;her land will become burning pitch.
10 Night and day it will burn;its smoke will ascend continually.Generation after generation it will be a wastelandand no one will ever pass through it again.
11 Owls and wild animals will live there,all kinds of wild birds will settle in it.The Lord will stretch out over herthe measuring line of ruinand the plumb line of destruction.