Thus says the Lord God concerning Edom:
We have heard a report from the Lord,
    and a messenger has been sent among the nations:
“Rise up! Let us rise against it for battle!”^(A)

¹¹ Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Edom,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,^[a]
because he pursued his brother with the sword
    and cast off all pity;
he maintained his anger perpetually^[b]
    and kept his wrath^[c] forever.^(A)
12 So I will send a fire on Teman,
    and it shall devour the strongholds of Bozrah.^(B)

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

“It is I, announcing vindication,
    mighty to save.”^(A)

² “Why are your robes red
    and your garments like theirs who tread the winepress?”^(B)

³ “I have trodden the winepress alone,
    and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
    and trampled them in my wrath;
their juice spattered on my garments,
    and I stained all my robes.^(C)
4 For the day of vengeance was in my mind,
    and the year for my redeeming work had come.^(D)
5 I looked, but there was no helper;
    I was abandoned, and there was no one to sustain me,
so my own arm brought me victory,
    and my wrath sustained me.^(E)
6 I trampled down peoples in my anger;
    I crushed them^[a] in my wrath,
    and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”^(F)

I am against you, Mount Seir;
    I stretch out my hand against you
    to make you a desolation and a waste.
⁴ I lay your towns in ruins;
    you shall become a desolation,
    and you shall know that I am the Lord.

⁵ When my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens,
    upon Edom it will fall,
    upon the people I have doomed to judgment.^(E)
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.^(F)
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.^(G)

⁸ For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
    a year of vindication for Zion’s cause.^[a](H)
9 And the streams of Edom^[b] shall be turned into pitch
    and her soil into sulfur;
    her land shall become burning pitch.^(I)
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.^(J)
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.^(K)
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.^(L)
14 Wildcats shall meet with hyenas;
    goat-demons shall call to each other;
there also Lilith shall repose
    and find a place to rest.^(M)
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.^(N)
16 Seek and read from the book of the Lord:
    Not one of these shall be missing;
    none shall be without its mate.
For his mouth, it has commanded,
    and his spirit, it has gathered them.^(O)
17 He has cast the lot for them;
    his hand has portioned it out to them with the line.
[[They shall possess it;
    from generation to generation they shall live in it.^(P)