Isaiah 34:2–8

²The Lord is angry with all of the nations.

His anger burns against all of their armies.

He will totally destroy them.

He will have them killed.

³Those who are killed won’t be buried.

Their dead bodies will be thrown on the ground.

They will give off a very bad smell.

Their blood will cover the mountains.

⁴All of the stars in the heavens will vanish.

The sky will be rolled up like a scroll.

All of the stars in the sky will fall like dried-up leaves from a vine.

They will drop like wrinkled figs from a fig tree.

⁵The sword of the Lord will finish its deadly work in the sky.

Then it will come down to strike Edom.

He will totally destroy that nation.

⁶His sword will be red with blood.

It will be covered with fat.

The blood will flow like the blood

of lambs and goats being sacrificed.

The fat will be like the fat

taken from the kidneys of rams.

That’s because the Lord will offer a sacrifice

in the city of Bozrah.

He will kill many people in Edom.

⁷The people and their leaders will be killed

like wild oxen and young bulls.

Their land will be wet with their blood.

The dust will be covered with their fat.

⁸That’s because the Lord has set aside a day to pay Edom back.

He has set aside a year to pay them back for what they did to the city of Zion.