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1 All you nations, come near and listen. Pay attention, you peoples! The earth and all the people in it should listen, the world and everything in it.
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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; he is angry with their armies. He will destroy them and kill them all.
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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 bodies will be thrown outside. The stink will rise from the bodies, and the blood will flow down the mountains.
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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 dissolve, and the sky will be rolled up like a scroll. The stars will fall like dead leaves from a vine or dried-up figs from 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's sword in the sky is covered with blood. and destroy those people as an offering to the Lord.
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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 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. and much killing in 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 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.
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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 The Lord has chosen a time for punishment. He has chosen a year when people must pay for the wrongs they did to Jerusalem.
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For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion’s cause.
9 Edom's rivers will be like hot tar. Its dirt will be like burning sulfur. Its land will be like burning 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 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.
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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 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.
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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 The important people will have no one left to rule them; 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 will take over the strong towers, and wild bushes will grow in the walled cities. It will be a home for wild dogs and a place for owls to live.
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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 Desert animals will live with the hyenas, and wild goats will call to their friends. Night animals will live there and find a place of 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 nest there and lay eggs. When they hatch open, the owls will gather their young under their wings. Hawks will gather with their own kind.
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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 Look at the Lord's scroll and read what is written there: None of these will be missing; none will be without its mate. God has given the command, so his Spirit will gather 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 God has divided the land among them, and he has given them each their portion. So they will own that land forever and will live there year after year.
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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.
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