1 Kom nader, o volke, om te hoor; en nasies, luister! Laat die aarde hoor, en die volheid daarvan, die wêreld en alles wat daaruit voortkom.

2 Want die toorn van die HERE is oor al die nasies, en grimmigheid oor al hulle leërskare; Hy het hulle met die banvloek getref, Hy het hulle oorgegee om geslag te word.

3 En hulle gesneuweldes sal weggewerp word, en die stank van hulle lyke gaan op, en die berge smelt van hulle bloed.

4 En al die leërskare van die hemel vergaan, en die hemel word inmekaar gerol soos 'n boek en al sy leërskare val af soos 'n blad van die wingerdstok afval en soos vye afval van die vyeboom.

5 Want my swaard het dronk geword in die hemel; kyk, dit kom af op Edom en op die volk van my banvloek, om geoordeel te word.

6 Die swaard van die HERE is vol bloed, dit drup van vet, van die bloed van lammers en bokke, van die niervet van ramme; want die HERE het 'n slagoffer in Bosra en 'n groot slagting in die land Edom.

7 Dan val die buffels saam met hulle, en die jong stiere saam met die stiere; en hulle land word dronk van bloed, en hulle stof versadig van vet.

8 Want die HERE hou 'n dag van wraak, 'n jaar van vergelding in die regsaak van Sion.

9 En sy strome sal in pik verander word en sy stof in swawel, en sy land sal brandende pik word.

10 Dit sal snags of oordag nie uitgeblus word nie; vir ewig gaan sy rook op; van geslag tot geslag lê dit woes, vir altyd en ewig trek niemand daardeur nie.

11 Maar die pelikaan en die krimpvarkie neem dit in besit, en die uil en die kraai woon daarin. En Hy sal die riglyn van woestheid daaroor span en die skietlood van vormloosheid.

12 Sy edeles -- daar sal hulle geen koninkryk meer uitroep nie, en met al sy vorste is dit gedaan.

13 En sy paleise word begroei met dorings, brandnekels en distels sal in sy vestings wees. En dit sal 'n lêplek van jakkalse, 'n verblyf vir die volstruise wees.

14 En boskatte kom wildehonde teë, en veldduiwels ontmoet mekaar; ook woon die naggees daar in vrede en vind 'n rusplek vir hom.

15 Daar maak die pylslang sy nes en lê eiers en broei dit uit en koester haar kleintjies daar in die skaduwee; ook sal die kuikendiewe daar bymekaarkom, die een by die ander.

16 Soek in die boek van die HERE en lees! Nie een van hierdie wesens ontbreek nie, die een mis die ander nie; want my mond -- die het dit beveel, en sy Gees -- die het hulle bymekaargebring.

17 En Hy het vir hulle die lot gewerp, en sy hand het die land aan hulle met die meetsnoer uitgedeel; tot in ewigheid sal hulle dit besit, van geslag tot geslag daarin woon.

1 Come near, you nations, and give ear; take note, you peoples: let the earth and everything in it give ear; the world and all those living in it.

2 For the Lord is angry with all the nations, and his wrath is burning against all their armies: he has put them to the curse, he has given them to destruction.

3 Their dead bodies will be thick on the face of the earth, and their smell will come up, and the mountains will be flowing with their blood, and all the hills will come to nothing.

4 And the heavens will be rolled together like the roll of a book: and all their army will be gone, like a dead leaf from the vine, or a dry fruit from the fig-tree.

5 For my sword in heaven is full of wrath: see, it is coming down on Edom, in punishment on the people of my curse.

6 The sword of the Lord is full of blood, it is fat with the best of the meat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the best parts of the sheep: for the Lord has a feast in Bozrah, and much cattle will be put to death in the land of Edom.

7 And the strong oxen will go down to death together with the smaller cattle.

8 For it is the day of the Lord's punishment, when he gives payment for the wrongs done to Zion.

9 And its streams will be turned into boiling oil, and its dust into burning stone, and all the land will be on fire.

10 It will not be put out day or night; its smoke will go up for ever: it will be waste from generation to generation; no one will go through it for ever.

11 But the birds of the waste land will have their place there; it will be a heritage for the bittern and the raven: and it will be measured out with line and weight as a waste land.

12 The jackals will be there, and her great ones will be gone; they will say, There is no longer a kingdom there, and all her chiefs will have come to an end.

13 And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.

14 And the beasts of the waste places will come together with the jackals, and the evil spirits will be crying to one another, even the night-spirit will come and make her resting-place there.

15 The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.

16 See what is recorded in the book of the Lord: all these will be there, not one without the other: the mouth of the Lord has given the order, and his spirit has made them come together.

17 And he has given them their heritage, and by his hand it has been measured out to them: it will be theirs for ever, their resting-place from generation to generation.