Jubilee Bible 2000 JUB
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1 Come near, ye Gentiles, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples; let the earth hear, and all that is therein, the world and all things that come forth of 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 For the indignation of the LORD <em>is</em> upon all the Gentiles, and <em>his</em> fury upon the entire army of them; he shall destroy them and deliver them to the slaughter.
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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 slain shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their 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 And all the host of heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fall down as the leaf falls off from the vine and as the <em>leaf</em> falls from the 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 For in the heavens my sword shall become drunk; behold, it shall come down in judgment upon Idumea <em>or Edom</em> and upon the people of my anathema.
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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 sword of the LORD is filled with blood; it is made fat with fatness <em>and</em> with the blood of lambs and goats with the fat of the kidneys of rams, for the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
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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 And the unicorns shall fall with them, and the bulls with the calves; and their land shall become drunk with blood, and their dust shall be greased with fatness.
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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 For <em>it shall be</em> the day of the LORD’s vengeance <em>and</em> the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
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For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion’s cause.
9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into sulphur, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
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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 shall not be quenched night nor day; its smoke shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; no one shall pass through it for ever and ever.
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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 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it; and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the level of desolation.
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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 They shall call the princes thereof, princes without a kingdom; and all her great ones shall be nothing.
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Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom, all her princes will vanish away.
13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of dragons <em>and</em> a court for young owls.
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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 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl shall have his seat there and find for himself 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 There shall the great owl make his nest and conserve <em>his eggs</em> and hatch his young and gather them under his wings; there shall the vultures also be gathered, each one with his mate.
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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 Seek ye out <em>that which is written in</em> the book of the LORD and read; if one of these is lacking, none is missing with his mate, for his mouth has commanded it, and his same Spirit has gathered them.
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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 And he has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it unto them by line; therefore they shall have it as an inheritance for ever; from generation to generation they shall dwell therein.
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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.
The Jubilee Bible (from the Scriptures of the Reformation), edited by Russell M. Stendal, Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2010
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