5 My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;see, it descends in judgment on Edom,the people I have totally destroyed.
6 The sword of the Lord is bathed in blood,it is covered with fat –the blood of lambs and goats,fat from the kidneys of rams.For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrahand a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 And the wild oxen will fall with them,the bull calves and the great bulls.Their land will be drenched with blood,and the dust will be soaked with fat.
8 For the Lord has a day of vengeance,a year of retribution, to uphold Zion’s cause.
9 Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,her dust into burning sulphur;her land will become blazing pitch!
10 It will not be quenched night or day;its smoke will rise for ever.From generation to generation it will lie desolate;no one will ever pass through it again.
11 The desert owl and screech owl will possess it;the great owl and the raven will nest there.God will stretch out over Edomthe measuring line of chaosand the plumb-line of desolation.