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.
12 Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom,all her princes will vanish away.
13 Thorns will overrun her citadels,nettles and brambles her strongholds.She will become a haunt for jackals,a home for owls.