⁵ When my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens,
    upon Edom it will fall,
    upon the people I have doomed to judgment.^(A)
6 The 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.^(B)
7 Wild 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.^(C)

⁸ For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
    a year of vindication for Zion’s cause.^[a](D)
9 And the streams of Edom^[b] shall be turned into pitch
    and her soil into sulfur;
    her land shall become burning pitch.^(E)
10 Night and day it shall not be quenched;
    its smoke shall go up forever.
From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
    no one shall pass through it forever and ever.^(F)
11 But the desert owl^[c] and the screech owl^[d] shall possess it;
    the great owl and the raven shall live in it.
He shall stretch the line of confusion
    and the plummet of chaos over it.^(G)
12 They shall call its nobles No Kingdom There,
    and all its princes shall be nothing.
¹³ Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,
    nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of jackals,
    an abode for ostriches.^(H)
14 Wildcats shall meet with hyenas;
    goat-demons shall call to each other;
there also Lilith shall repose
    and find a place to rest.^(I)
15 There shall the owl nest
    and lay and hatch and brood in its shadow;
there also the buzzards shall gather,
    each one with its mate.^(J)

Is there no longer wisdom in Teman?
    Has counsel perished from the prudent?
    Has their wisdom vanished?^(A)
8 Flee; turn back; get down low,
    inhabitants of Dedan!
For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him,
    the time when I punish him.^(B)
9 If grape gatherers came to you,
    would they not leave gleanings?
If thieves came by night,
    even they would pillage only what they wanted.^(C)
10 But as for me, I have stripped Esau bare;
    I have uncovered his hiding places,
    and he is not able to conceal himself.
His offspring are destroyed, his kinsfolk
    and his neighbors, and he is no more.^(D)
11 Leave your orphans; I will keep them alive,
    and let your widows trust in me.^(E)

¹⁴ I have heard tidings from the Lord,
    and a messenger has been sent among the nations:
“Gather yourselves together and come against her,
    and rise up for battle!”^(H)
15 For I will make you least among the nations,
    despised by humankind.
¹⁶ The terror you inspire
    and the pride of your heart have deceived you,
you who live in the clefts of the rock,^[a]
    who hold the height of the hill.
Although you make your nest as high as the eagle’s,
    from there I will bring you down,
            says the Lord.^(I)