1 Come near, you nations, to hear!
Listen, you peoples.
Let the earth and all it contains hear,
the world, and everything that comes from it.
2 For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations,
and angry with all their armies.
He has utterly destroyed them.
He has given them over for slaughter.
3 Their slain will also be cast out,
and the stench of their dead bodies will come up.
The mountains will melt in their blood.
4 All of the army of the sky will be dissolved.
The sky will be rolled up like a scroll,
and all its armies will fade away,
as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.
5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky.
Behold, it will come down on Edom,
and on the people of my curse, for judgment.
6 Yahweh’s sword is filled with blood.
It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams;
for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 The wild oxen will come down with them,
and the young bulls with the mighty bulls;
and their land will be drunken with blood,
and their dust made greasy with fat.
8 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance,
a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
9 Its streams will be turned into pitch,
its dust into sulfur,
and its land will become burning pitch.
10 It won’t be quenched night or day.
Its smoke will go up forever.
From generation to generation, it will lie waste.
No one will pass through it forever and ever.
11 But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it.
The owl and the raven will dwell in it.
He will stretch the line of confusion over it,
and the plumb line of emptiness.
12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there;
and all its princes shall be nothing.
13 Thorns will come up in its palaces,
nettles and thistles in its fortresses;
and it will be a habitation of jackals,
a court for ostriches.
14 The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves,
and the wild goat will cry to his fellow.
Yes, the night creature shall settle there,
and shall find herself a place of rest.
15 The arrow snake will make her nest there,
and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade.
Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.
16 Search in the book of Yahweh, and read:
not one of these will be missing.
None will lack her mate.
For my mouth has commanded,
and his Spirit has gathered them.
17 He has cast the lot for them,
and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line.
They shall possess it forever.
From generation to generation they will dwell in it.
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。耶和华必把空虚的准绳、混沌的线铊， 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， 野山羊必呼喊它的同伴； 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， 并且聚子在它的阴影下； 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， 因为他的口已吩咐了， 他的灵已把它们聚集。
17 他也为它们抽签， 他的手用准绳给它们分地； 它们必永远得着那地， 也要世世代代住在其中。