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Their dead bodies will be left
    to rot and stink;
their blood will flow
    down the mountains.
(A) Each star[a] will disappear—
the sky will roll up
    like a scroll.[b]
Everything in the sky
    will dry up and wilt
like leaves on a vine
    or fruit on a tree.

Trouble for Edom

(B) After the sword of the Lord
has done what it wants
    to the skies above,[c]
it will come down on Edom,
the nation that the Lord
    has doomed for destruction.

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Footnotes

  1. 34.4 star: Stars were worshiped as gods.
  2. 34.4 scroll: A roll of paper or specially prepared leather used for writing on.
  3. 34.5 has done … above: The Standard Hebrew Text; the Dead Sea Scrolls “appears in the skies above.”

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