9. Edom’s rivers will be like hot tar.Its dirt will be like burning sulfur.Its land will be like burning tar.
10. The fires will burn night and day;the smoke will rise from Edom forever.Year after year that land will be empty;no one will ever travel through that land again.
11. Birds and small animals will own that land,and owls and ravens will live there.God will make it an empty wasteland;it will have nothing left in it.
12. The important people will have no one left to rule them;the leaders will all be gone.
13. Thorns will take over the strong towers,and wild bushes will grow in the walled cities.It will be a home for wild dogsand a place for owls to live.
14. Desert animals will live with the hyenas,and wild goats will call to their friends.Night animals will live thereand find a place of rest.
15. Owls will nest there and lay eggs.When they hatch open, the owls will gather their young under their wings.Hawks will gatherwith their own kind.