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Not one of its stakes will ever be And their dust saturated with fatness.”
removed, 8
Nor will any of its cords be broken. For it is the day of the LORD’s vengeance,
21 The year of recompense for the cause
But there the majestic LORD will be for us of Zion.
A place of broad rivers and streams, 9
In which no galley with oars will sail, Its streams shall be turned into pitch,
Nor majestic ships pass by And its dust into brimstone;
22 (For the LORD is our Judge, 10 Its land shall become burning pitch.
The LORD is our Lawgiver, It shall not be quenched night or day;
The LORD is our King; Its smoke shall ascend forever.
He will save us); From generation to generation it shall
23 Your tackle is loosed, lie waste;
They could not strengthen their mast, No one shall pass through it forever
They could not spread the sail. and ever.
11 But the pelican and the porcupine shall
Then the prey of great plunder is divided; possess it,
The lame take the prey. Also the owl and the raven shall dwell
24 And the inhabitant will not say, “I am in it.
sick”; And He shall stretch out over it
The people who dwell in it will be The line of confusion and the stones
forgiven their iniquity. of emptiness.
34 Come near, you nations, 12 They shall call its nobles to the kingdom,
But none shall be there, and all its
to hear;
And heed, you people! princes shall be nothing.
Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, 13 And thorns shall come up in its palaces,
The world and all things that come Nettles and brambles in its fortresses;
forth from it.
2 For the indignation of the LORD is It shall be a habitation of jackals,
against all nations, 14 A courtyard for ostriches.
And His fury against all their armies; The wild beasts of the desert shall also
He has utterly destroyed them, meet with the jackals,
He has given them over to the slaughter. And the wild goat shall bleat to its
3 Also their slain shall be thrown out; companion;
Their stench shall rise from their Also the night creature shall rest there,
corpses, And find for herself a place of rest.
And the mountains shall be melted 15 There the arrow snake shall make her
with their blood. nest and lay eggs
4 All the host of heaven shall be dissolved, And hatch, and gather them under her
And the heavens shall be rolled up like shadow;
a scroll; There also shall the hawks be gathered,
All their host shall fall down Every one with her mate.
As the leaf falls from the vine, 16 “Search from the book of the LORD,
And as fruit falling from a fig tree.
and read:
5 “For My sword shall be bathed in heaven; Not one of these shall fail;
Indeed it shall come down on Edom, Not one shall lack her mate.
And on the people of My curse, for For My mouth has commanded it, and
judgment. His Spirit has gathered them.
6 The sword of the LORD is filled with 17 He has cast the lot for them,
blood, And His hand has divided it among
It is made overflowing with fatness, them with a measuring line.
With the blood of lambs and goats, They shall possess it forever;
With the fat of the kidneys of rams. From generation to generation they
For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, shall dwell in it.”
And a great slaughter in the land of
Edom. Psalm 109:1–5
The wild oxen shall come down with To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
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them,
And the young bulls with the mighty bulls; o not keep silent,
Their land shall be soaked with blood, D O God of my praise!

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