God will destroy ungodly world powers
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📚Come near, you nations,to hear;
and listen, you people.
Let the earth hear,
and all that is in it,
the world, and all things
that come out of it.
2 📚For the anger of the LORD
is upon all nations 📖,
and his fury 📖 upon
all their armies.
He has utterly destroyed them,
he has delivered them
to the slaughter.
3 📚And their slain will be
thrown out,
and their stench will rise
from their corpses,
and the mountains will be drenched
with their blood.
4 📚And all the starry host
of heaven will be dissolved,
and the heavens will be rolled
up like a scroll,
and all their host will fall,
as the leaf falls from the vine,
and as a falling fruit
from the fig tree.
5 📚“For my sword will be
drenched in the heavens.
See, it will come down
on Edom 📖 for judgment,
and on the people whom
I have put under a curse”.
6 📚The sword of the LORD 📖 is
filled with blood,
it is covered with fat,
and with the blood of lambs
and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys
of rams;
for the LORD has a sacrifice
in Bozrah 📖,
and a great slaughter
in the land of Edom.
7 📚And the wild oxen will fall
with them,
and the young bulls
with the strong bulls;
and their land will be soaked
with blood,
and their dust saturated
with fat.
8 📚For it is the day
of the LORD’s vengeance 📖,
and the year of retribution
for the cause of Zion.
9 📚And its streams will be turned
into pitch,
and its dust into sulfur,
and its land will become
burning pitch.
10 📚It will not be quenched
night or day;
its smoke will go up forever.
From generation to generation
it will lie waste.
No one will pass through
it forever and ever.
11 📚But the cormorant and
the bittern 📖 will possess it,
and the owl and the raven
will dwell in it.
And he will stretch out over it
the measuring line of chaos and
the plumb line of emptiness.
12 📚They will call its nobles
to the kingdom,
but no one will be there,
and all its princes will be nothing.
13 📚And thorns will come up
in its palaces,
nettles and brambles
in its fortresses,
and it will be a habitation
of jackals,
and a home for owls.
14 📚And desert animals will meet
with the hyenas,
and the wild goat will bleat
to its companion.
The screech owl also will rest
there,
and find for itself a place of rest.
15 📚There the great owl
will make its nest,
and lay eggs,
and hatch them, and
gather its young in its
shadow.
There the vultures will also be
gathered,
each one with its mate.
16 📚“Search the book 📖 of the LORD,
and read.
Not one of these 📖 will fail,
not one will lack its mate;
for my mouth has commanded it,
and his Spirit will gather them.
17 📚And he has cast
the lot for them,
and his hand has divided
it for them by a measuring line.
They will possess it forever,
from generation to generation
they will dwell in it”.