Isaiah 34:5–15

⁵For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;

behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom,

upon the people I have doomed.

⁶The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood,

it is gorged with fat,

with the blood of lambs and goats,

with the fat of the kidneys of rams.

For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,

a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

⁷Wild oxen shall fall with them,

and young steers with the mighty bulls.

Their land shall be soaked with blood,

and their soil made rich with fat.

⁸For the Lord has a day of vengeance,

a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

⁹And the streams of Edom^a shall be turned into pitch,

and her soil into brimstone;

her land shall become burning pitch.

¹⁰Night and day it shall not be quenched;

its smoke shall go up for ever.

From generation to generation it shall lie waste;

none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

¹¹But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it,

the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.

He shall stretch the line of confusion over it,

and the plummet of chaos over its nobles.

¹²They shall name it No Kingdom There,

and all its princes shall be nothing.

¹³Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,

nettles and thistles in its fortresses.

It shall be the haunt of jackals,

an abode for ostriches.

¹⁴And wild beasts shall meet with hyenas,

the satyr shall cry to his fellow;

yea, there shall the night hag alight,

and find for herself a resting place.

¹⁵There shall the owl nest and lay

and hatch and gather her young in her shadow;

yea, there shall the kites be gathered,

each one with her mate.