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| [1]Draw near, ye nations; and hearken, ye princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people that are therein. |
[1]Come near, ye nations and hear, and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear and all that is therein, the world and all that proceedeth thereof. |
| [2]For the wrath of the Lord is upon all nations, and his anger upon the number of them, to destroy them, and give them up to slaughter. |
[2]For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his wrath upon all their armies: he hath destroyed them and delivered them to the slaughter. |
| [3]And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their ill savour shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood. |
[3]And their slain shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their bodies, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. |
| [4]And all the powers of the heavens shall melt, 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. |
[4]And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be folded like a book: and all their hosts shall fall as the leaf falleth from the vine, and as it falleth from the fig tree. |
| [5]My sword has been made drunk in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and with judgment upon the people doomed to destruction. |
[5]For my sword shall be drunken in the heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, even upon the people of my curse to judgment. |
| [6]The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat, with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bosor, and a great slaughter in Idumea. |
[6]The sword of the Lord is filled with blood: it is made fat with the fat and with the blood of the lambs and the goats, with the fat of the kidneys of the rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. |
| [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. |
[7]And the unicorn shall come down with them and the heifers with the bulls, and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. |
| [8]For it is the day of judgment of the Lord, and the year of the recompence of Sion in judgment. |
[8]For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recompense for the judgment of Zion. |
| [9]And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day; |
[9]And the rivers thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall be burning pitch. |
| [10]and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up: it shall be made desolate throughout her generations, |
[10]It shall not be quenched night nor day: the smoke thereof shall go up evermore: it shall be desolate from generation to generation: none shall pass through it forever. |
| [11]and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it: and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and satyrs shall dwell in it. |
[11]But the pelican and the hedgehog shall possess it, and the great owl, and the raven shall dwell in it, and he shall stretch out upon it the line of vanity, and the stones of emptiness. |
| [12]Her princes shall be no more; for her kings and her great men shall be destroyed. |
[12]The nobles thereof shall call to the kingdom, and there shall be none, and all the princes thereof shall be as nothing. |
| [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. |
[13]And it shall bring forth thorns in the palaces thereof, nettles and thistles in the strong holds thereof, and it shall be an habitation for dragons, and a court for ostriches. |
| [14]And devils shall meet with satyrs, and they shall cry one to the other: there shall satyrs rest, having found for themselves a place of rest. |
[14]There shall meet also Zijm and Iim, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow, and the screech owl shall rest there, and shall find for herself a quiet dwelling. |
| [15]There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young: there have the deer met, and seen one another's faces. |
[15]There shall the owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather them under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, everyone with her make. |
| [16]They passed by in full number, and not one of them perished: they sought not one another; for the Lord commanded them, and his Spirit gathered them. |
[16]Seek in the book of the Lord, and read: none of these shall fail, none shall want her make: for his mouth hath commanded, and his very spirit hath gathered them. |
| [17]And he shall cast lots for them, and his hand has portioned out their pasture, saying, Ye shall inherit the land for ever: they shall rest on it through all generations. |
[17]And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it forever: from generation to generation shall they dwell in it. |