^(A)“For three transgressions of ^(B)Edom,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
^(C)because he pursued his brother with the sword
    ^(D)and cast off all pity,
^(E)and his anger tore perpetually,
    ^(F)and he kept his wrath forever.
¹² So I will send a fire upon ^(G)Teman,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of ^(H)Bozrah.”

^19 (A)“Egypt shall become a desolation
    and ^(B)Edom a desolate wilderness,
^(C)for the violence done to the people of Judah,
    because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

² Why is your ^(D)apparel red,
    and your garments like his ^(E)who treads in the winepress?

^3 (F)“I have trodden the winepress alone,
    ^(G)and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
    and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood^[a] spattered on my garments,
    and stained all my apparel.
^4 (H)For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
    and my year of redemption^[b] had come.
⁵ I looked, but ^(I)there was no one to help;
    I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;
so my own arm brought me salvation,
    and my wrath upheld me.
⁶ I trampled down the peoples in my anger;
    ^(J)I made them drunk in my wrath,
    and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

⁵ For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
    behold, it descends for judgment upon ^(F)Edom,
    upon the people ^(G)I have devoted to destruction.
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.
^(H)For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
    a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
^7 (I)Wild oxen shall ^(J)fall with them,
    and ^(K)young steers with ^(L)the mighty bulls.
Their land shall drink its fill of blood,
    and their soil shall be gorged with fat.

^8 (M)For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
    a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
^9 (N)And the streams of Edom^[b] shall be turned into pitch,
    and her soil into sulfur;
    her land shall become burning pitch.
¹⁰ Night and day ^(O)it shall not be quenched;
    ^(P)its smoke shall go up forever.
^(Q)From generation to generation it shall lie waste;
    none shall pass through it forever and ever.
^11 (R)But the hawk and the porcupine^[c] shall possess it,
    the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
^(S)He shall stretch the line of ^(T)confusion^[d] over it,
    and the plumb line of emptiness.
¹² Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom,
    and all its princes shall be nothing.

^13 (U)Thorns shall grow over its strongholds,
    nettles and thistles in its fortresses.
It shall be the haunt of ^(V)jackals,
    an abode for ostriches.^[e]
14 (W)And wild animals shall meet with hyenas;
    the wild goat shall cry to his fellow;
indeed, there the night bird^[f] settles
    and finds for herself a resting place.

¹⁵ There the owl nests and lays
    and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow;
indeed, there ^(X)the hawks are gathered,
    each one with her mate.
¹⁶ Seek and read from the book of the Lord:
    Not one of these shall be missing;
    none shall be without her mate.
For the mouth of the Lord has commanded,
    and his Spirit has gathered them.
^17 (Y)He has cast the lot for them;
    his hand has portioned it out to them with the line;
they shall possess it forever;
    from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.