1 列国啊，要近前来听！众民哪，要留心听！

地和地上所充满的，世界和其中所出的一切，都要听！

2 因为耶和华向列国发怒，

向他们所有的军队发烈怒，

要把他们灭尽，

要把他们交出来受屠杀。

3 他们被杀的必被拋弃在外面，

尸体的臭气上腾，

众山都被他们的血所溶化。

4 天上的万象都必消残；

天也像书卷一般被卷起，

所有星宿也必衰残，

像葡萄树的叶子衰残一样，

又像无花果树的叶子凋落一样。

5 因为我的刀在天上已经喝足了，

看哪！它要落在以东，

以及我决定要灭绝的民身上，为要施行审判。

6 耶和华的刀染满了血，

这刀因脂肪、羊羔和公山羊的血，

以及公绵羊腰子的脂肪而滋润，

因为耶和华在波斯拉有杀牲献祭的事，

在以东地有大屠杀。

7 野牛、牛犊与壮牛要与他们一同倒下，

他们的地喝足了血，

他们的尘土因脂肪而肥润。

8 因为耶和华有报仇的日子，

为锡安的案件，必有报应之年。

9 以东的河水都要变成石油，

它的尘土必变成硫磺，

它的地土要变成烧着的石油，

10 昼夜不熄，

烟气永远上腾，

并且必世世代代变为荒凉，

永永远远无人经过。

11 但鹈鹕与箭猪要占据那地，

猫头鹰和乌鸦必住在其中。

耶和华必把混沌的准绳、

空虚的线铊，拉在其上。

12 它的显贵一个也没有了，

以致不能称为一国，

所有的领袖也没有了。

13 以东的宫殿必长荆棘，

它的堡垒必长蒺藜和刺草；

它要作野狗的住处，

作鸵鸟的居所。

14 旷野的走兽必与豺狼相遇，

野山羊必呼喊牠的同伴；

连夜间的怪物也必在那里栖身，

为自己寻找休息的地方。

15 箭蛇要在那里筑窝、下蛋、

孵蛋，并且聚子在牠的阴影下；

鹞鹰也各与自己的伴偶，

聚集在那里。

16 你们要查考和阅读耶和华的书卷；

这些都无一缺少，

也没有一个是没有伴偶的，

因为他的口*按照《马索拉文本》，"他的口"作"我的口"；现参照《死海古卷》和其他古译本翻译已吩咐了，

他的灵已把牠们聚集。

17 他也为牠们抽签，

他的手用准绳给牠们分地；

牠们必永远得着那地，

也要世世代代住在其中。

1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.*34.1 all that…: Heb. the fulness thereof 2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter. 3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. 5 For my sword shall be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment. 6 The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. 7 And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.*34.7 unicorns: or, rhinocerots*34.7 soaked: or, drunken 8 For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.

9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.*34.11 cormorant: or, pelican 12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. 13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.*34.13 owls: or, ostriches: Heb. daughters of the owl 14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.*34.14 The wild beasts of the desert: Heb. Ziim*34.14 the wild beasts of the island: Heb. Ijim*34.14 screech…: or, night monster 15 There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.

16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them. 17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.