1 Come near, O nations, to hear; and pay attention O peoples! Let the earth hear, and its fullness, the world, and all its offspring.10 Night and day it will not be quenched; her smoke will ascend forever; she will be desolate from generation to generation; no one will pass through her forever and ever;11 and the hawk and the hedgehog will dispossess her, and the owl and the raven will dwell in her; and He will stretch out over her a measuring line of confusion, and a plumb line of emptiness.12 And nothing [is] there for her nobles to call a kingdom, and all her princes will be nothing.13 And thorns will come up in her palaces, thistles and briers in her fortresses; and she will be a habitation of jackals, a courtyard for daughters of the ostrich.14 And the desert creatures will meet with the jackals, and the wild goat will bleat alongside his companion; indeed, Lilith will rest there and find for herself a place of rest,15 There the owl will nest and lay and hatch and gather [them] under her shadow; even there will gather the birds of prey, each with her mate.16 Search from the book of YHWH and recite: Not one of these will go missing, a female will not lack her mate. For His mouth has commanded it, and by His Spirit He has gathered them.17 And He has cast in it a lot, and His hand has divided it among them with a measuring line; even to forever they will possess it; for generation and generation they will dwell in it.2 For wrath [is] unto YHWH against all the nations, and rage against all their hosts; He has devoted them to destruction, He has given them over to the slaughter!3 And their slain will be thrown out, and [from] their corpses their stench will rise, and the mountains will flow with their blood.4 And all the host of heavens will be made to rot, and the heavens will be rolled up like a scroll; and all their host will fade away, like the fading of a leaf from the vine and like a falling from a fig tree.5 For in the heavens My sword has drunk its fill; behold, upon Edom it will come down, and upon the people I have devoted to judgment.6 The sword of YHWH has been full of blood, dripping with fat [and] with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for a sacrifice [is] unto YHWH in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.7 And the wild oxen will go down with them and the young bulls with the mighty ones; and their land will be watered with blood, and their dust will be soaked with fat.8 For a day of vengeance [is] unto YHWH, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.9 And her streams will be turned to pitch, and her dust to brimstone, and her land will become a burning pitch.