1 Draw near, you nations; and listen, you princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people that are in it. 2 For the fierce anger of the Lord is upon all nations, and his anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter. 3 And their people who were killed shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their ill aroma shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood. 4 And the sky shall be rolled up like a scroll: and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig tree.⁠a 5 My sword has been made drunk in heaven: look, it shall come down upon Idumea, and with judgment upon the people doomed to destruction. 6 The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with the fat of lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in Idumea. 7 And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the land shall be soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat. 8 For it is the day of judgment of the Lord, and the year of the recompense of Zion in judgment. 9 And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulfur; and her land shall be as pitch burning 10 night and day; and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be made desolate throughout her generations, and for a long time; 11 and birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it,⁠b and donkey-centaurs shall dwell in it. 12 Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her princes and her great men shall be destroyed. 13 And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strong holds: and they shall be habitations of monsters, and a court of ostriches. 14 And demons shall meet with donkey-centaurs, and they shall cry one to the other: there shall donkey-centaurs rest,⁠c having found for themselves a place of rest. 15 There the hedgehog has made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young: there the deer have met, and seen one another's faces. 16 They passed by in full number, and not one of them perished: they did not seek one another; for the Lord commanded them, and his Spirit gathered them. 17 And he shall cast lots for them, and his hand has portioned out their pasture, saying, You shall inherit the land for ever: they shall rest on it through all generations.