7. Wild oxen will be killed with them,young bulls along with rams.Their land will be drenched with blood.Their dust will be covered with fat.
8. The Lord will have a day of vengeance,a year of revenge in defense of Zion.
9. Edom’s streams will be turned to tar.Its soil will be turned to burning sulfur.Its land will become blazing tar.
10. They will not be extinguished day or night,and smoke will always go up from them.Edom will lie in ruins for generations.No one will ever travel through it.
11. Pelicans and herons will take possession of the land.Owls and crows will live there.He will stretch the measuring line of chaosand the plumb line of destruction over it.
12. There are no nobles to rule a kingdom.All of its princes have disappeared.
13. Its palaces are covered with thorns.Its fortresses have nettles and thistles.It will become a home for jackalsand a place for ostriches.
14. Hyenas will meet with jackals.Male goats will call to their mates.Screech owls will rest thereand find a resting place for themselves.
15. Owls will make their nests there, lay eggs, and hatch them.They will gather their youngin the shadow of ⌊their wings⌋.Vultures also will gather there,each one with its mate.