Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
1 Come, people of all nations! Gather around and listen. Let the whole earth and everyone living on it come here and listen.
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Come near, you nations, and listen; pay attention, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world, and all that comes out of it!
2 The Lord is angry with all the nations and all their armies. He has condemned them to destruction.
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The LORD is angry with all nations; his wrath is on all their armies. He will totally destroy them, he will give them over to slaughter.
3 Their corpses will not be buried, but will lie there rotting and stinking; and the mountains will be red with blood.
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Their slain will be thrown out, their dead bodies will stink; the mountains will be soaked with their blood.
4 The sun, moon, and stars will crumble to dust. The sky will disappear like a scroll being rolled up, and the stars will fall like leaves dropping from a vine or a fig tree.
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All the stars in the sky will be dissolved and the heavens rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree.
5 The Lord has prepared his sword in heaven, and now it will strike Edom, those people whom he has condemned to destruction.
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My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; see, it descends in judgment on Edom, the people I have totally destroyed.
6 His sword will be covered with their blood and fat, like the blood and fat of lambs and goats that are sacrificed. The Lord will offer this sacrifice in the city of Bozrah; he will make this a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
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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 Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 The people will fall like wild oxen and young bulls, and the earth will be red with blood and covered with fat.
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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 This is the time when the Lord will rescue Zion and take vengeance on her enemies.
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For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion’s cause.
9 The rivers of Edom will turn into tar, and the soil will turn into sulfur. The whole country will burn like tar.
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Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch, her dust into burning sulfur; her land will become blazing pitch!
10 It will burn day and night, and smoke will rise from it forever. The land will lie waste age after age, and no one will ever travel through it again.
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It will not be quenched night or day; its smoke will rise forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever pass through it again.
11 Owls and ravens will take over the land. The Lord will make it a barren waste again, as it was before the creation.
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The desert owl and screech owl will possess it; the great owl and the raven will nest there. God will stretch out over Edom the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of desolation.
12 There will be no king to rule the country, and the leaders will all be gone.
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Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom, all her princes will vanish away.
13 Thorns and thistles will grow up in all the palaces and walled towns, and jackals and owls will live in them.
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Thorns will overrun her citadels, nettles and brambles her strongholds. She will become a haunt for jackals, a home for owls.
14 Wild animals will roam there, and demons will call to each other. The night monster will come there looking for a place to rest.
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Desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and wild goats will bleat to each other; there the night creatures will also lie down and find for themselves places of rest.
15 Owls will build their nests, lay eggs, hatch their young, and care for them there. Vultures will gather there, one after another.
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The owl will nest there and lay eggs, she will hatch them, and care for her young under the shadow of her wings; there also the falcons will gather, each with its mate.
16 Search in the Lord's book of living creatures and read what it says. Not one of these creatures will be missing, and not one will be without its mate. The Lord has commanded it to be so; he himself will bring them together.
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Look in the scroll of the LORD and read: None of these will be missing, not one will lack her mate. For it is his mouth that has given the order, and his Spirit will gather them together.
17 It is the Lord who will divide the land among them and give each of them a share. They will live in the land age after age, and it will belong to them forever.
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He allots their portions; his hand distributes them by measure. They will possess it forever and dwell there from generation to generation.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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