Come near, ye
nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the
earth hear, and all that is therein; the world,
and all things that come forth of it.
02 For the indignation of the Lord is upon all
nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he
hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered
them to the slaughter.
03 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their
stink shall come up out of their carcases, and
the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
04 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved,
and the heavens shall be rolled together as a
scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as
the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a
falling fig from the fig tree.
05 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven:
behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon
the people of my curse, to judgment.
06 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it
is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of
lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of
rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah,
and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
07 And the unicorns shall come down with them,
and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land
shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made
fat with fatness.
08 For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and
the year of recompences for the controversy of
Zion.
09 And the streams thereof shall be turned into
pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and
the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
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10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the
smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from
generation to generation it shall lie waste; none
shall pass through it for ever and ever.
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 stones of emptiness.
12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the
kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her
princes shall be nothing.
13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces,
nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof:
and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a
court 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 also
shall rest there, and find for herself a place of
rest.
15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and
lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow:
there shall the vultures also be gathered, every
one with her mate.
16 Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read:
no one of these shall fail, none shall want her
mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his
spirit it hath gathered them.
17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his
hand hath divided it unto them by line: they
shall possess it for ever, from generation to
generation shall they dwell therein.
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