7. The oxen will be killed,and the cattle and the strong bulls.The land will be filled with their blood,and the dirt will be covered with their fat.
8. The Lord has chosen a time for punishment.He has chosen a year when people must pay for the wrongs they did to Jerusalem.
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.