⁸ For the Lord has a day of vengeance,^(E)
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.
⁹ Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
her soil into sulfur;^(F)
her land will become burning pitch.
¹⁰ It will never go out—day or night.
Its smoke will go up forever.^(G)
It will be desolate, from generation to generation;
no one will pass through it forever and ever.^(H)
11 The desert owl^[d] and the screech owl^[e] will possess it,
and the great owl and the raven will dwell there.^(I)
The Lord will stretch out a measuring line
and a plumb line over her
for her destruction and chaos.^(J)
12 No nobles will be left to proclaim a king,
and all her princes will come to nothing.
¹³ Her palaces will be overgrown with thorns;
her fortified cities, with thistles and briers.^(K)
She will become a dwelling for jackals,
an abode^[f] for ostriches.^(L)
14 The desert creatures will meet hyenas,
and one wild goat will call to another.
Indeed, the screech owl will stay there
and will find a resting place for herself.
¹⁵ The sand partridge^[g] will make her nest there;
she will lay and hatch her eggs
and will gather her brood under her shadow.
Indeed, the birds of prey will gather there,
each with its mate.^(M)
16 Search and read the scroll of the Lord:^(N)
Not one of them will be missing,
none will be lacking its mate,
because He has ordered it by my^[h] mouth,
and He will gather them by His Spirit.
¹⁷ He has ordained a lot for them;
His hand allotted their portion with a measuring line.
They will possess it forever;^(O)
they will dwell in it from generation to generation.