Isaiah 34:5–15

⁵When my sword is covered ⸤with blood⸥ in the heavens, 

it will fall on Edom 

and on the people I’ve claimed for destruction. 

⁶The Lord’s sword is covered with blood. 

It is covered with fat, 

with the blood of lambs and goats, 

with the fat of rams’ kidneys. 

The Lord will receive a sacrifice in Bozrah, 

a huge slaughter in the land of Edom. 

⁷Wild oxen will be killed with them, 

young bulls along with rams. 

Their land will be drenched with blood. 

Their dust will be covered with fat. 

⁸The Lord will have a day of vengeance, 

a year of revenge in defense of Zion. 

⁹Edom’s streams will be turned to tar. 

Its soil will be turned to burning sulfur. 

Its land will become blazing tar. 

¹⁰They will not be extinguished day or night, 

and smoke will always go up from them. 

Edom will lie in ruins for generations. 

No one will ever travel through it. 

¹¹Pelicans and herons will take possession of the land. 

Owls and crows will live there. 

He will stretch the measuring line of chaos 

and the plumb line of destruction over it. 

¹²There are no nobles to rule a kingdom. 

All of its princes have disappeared. 

¹³Its palaces are covered with thorns. 

Its fortresses have nettles and thistles. 

It will become a home for jackals 

and a place for ostriches. 

¹⁴Hyenas will meet with jackals. 

Male goats will call to their mates. 

Screech owls will rest there 

and find a resting place for themselves. 

¹⁵Owls will make their nests there, lay eggs, and hatch them. 

They will gather their young 

in the shadow of ⸤their wings⸥. 

Vultures also will gather there, 

each one with its mate.