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Draw near, O nations, to hear;
And listen, O peoples!
Let the earth and all that fills it hear,
The world and all that springs forth from it.
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For Jehovah’s indignation is upon all the nations,
And
His wrath is upon all their
aarmies;
He has utterly destroyed them;
He has delivered them unto the slaughter.
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Thus their slain are cast away,
And
from their corpses their
astench will come up;
And the mountains will be melted with their blood.
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And all the armies of heaven will be dissolved,
And the
aheavens will be rolled up like a scroll,
And all their host will wither away,
As the leaf withers from the vine,
Or
blike a
leaf withering from the fig tree.
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For My
asword has drunk its fill in heaven.
Now it will descend in judgment upon
bEdom And upon the people whom I have devoted to judgment.
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Jehovah’s sword is full of blood;
It has fattened itself with fat,
With the blood of lambs and goats,
With the fat of the kidneys of rams;
For Jehovah has a
1sacrifice in
aBozrah And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
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Wild oxen will also go down with them,
The young bulls with the bulls;
And their land will drink its fill of
their blood,
And their dust will become fat with
their fat.
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For Jehovah has a
aday of vengeance,
A year of recompense for Zion’s contention.
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And 1its streams will be turned into pitch,
And its dust into brimstone;
And its land will become burning pitch.
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It will not be quenched by night or by day;
It’s
asmoke will go up forever;
It will be desolate from generation to generation;
No one will pass through it forever and ever.
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But the pelican and the porcupine will inherit it,
And the owl and the raven will dwell in it;
And He will stretch over it
The line of nothingness and the plummet weights of emptiness.
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As for its nobles, there is no one there whom they may call to
assume the kingdom,
And all its princes will be nothing.
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And thorns will come up in its citadels,
Nettles and thistles in its fortified cities;
And it will be a
ahabitation for jackals,
And an abode for ostriches.
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aDesert animals will meet with hyenas;
And the
1demon will call to his kind,
Indeed there
2Lilith will settle
And find a resting place for herself.
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There the owl will make its nest and lay eggs,
And hatch
them and gather
them under its protection;
Indeed there the vultures will be gathered together,
Each with its kind.
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aSeek from the
bbook of Jehovah and read.
Not one of these will be missing;
Not one will lack her mate;
For His mouth has commanded
it,
And it is His Spirit who has gathered them.
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And He has cast the lot for them,
And His hand has divided it by line unto them;
They will inherit it forever;
From generation to generation they will dwell in it.
